I don't think anybody else has AC-130s.
this is true.
"The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reports. The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and sources say a lot of bodies were seen on the ground after the strike, but there is as yet, no confirmation of the identities. "
Yeah, that does sort of cut down the possible cover stories. "It was a civilian AC-130 that just happened to be in the area carrying teddy bears for the kiddies of Mogadishu and what do you know? The guns just went off."
Well, I'd believe it...
I believe that many NATO forces do..
I don't think anyone else has anything even vaguely like an AC-130. Although I do recall one of the Latin American Air Forces, El Salvador perhaps, having C-47s with side firing heavy machine guns, pretty much like the AC-130s grandpa,the AC-47 Puff the Magic Dragon/Spooky, although those had GE Mini-guns (Gatlings).