Let’s take a closer look at an aircraft that has performed myriad roles for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard since first flying more than 70 years ago. The C-130 is the longest ...

The Air Force C-130 has done just about everything a transport plane can do over the course of its 67-year career. It has served as a troop transport, gunship, search and rescue plane, aerial gas ...

Still, it shows the Air Force has a basic idea of what it wants the Herk-replacement to do. According to the CRFI, the next C-130 may have to carry up to 190% more payload and assume a new mission ...

The C-130 was also honored at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, where the 36th Airlift Squadron and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force 401st Tactical Airlift Squadron took to the skies to commemorate ...

The US Air Force has decided to pull 123 C-130 transport aircraft out of service after "atypical cracks" were discovered on the wings, Air Mobility Command announced. The C-130, a type of plane of ...

[Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] Can a Lockheed ... operations in the Air Force’s venerable cargo workhorse. Under the collaboration, Merlin Labs will retrofit a C-130 with software and technology ...

Air Force C-130 cargo planes specially equipped to drop thousands of gallons of wildfire retardant took part in training this week at the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in Port Hueneme ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Air Force has approved an overhaul of the avionics systems in its fleet of 20 C-130 transport aircraft. A group of Air Force personnel will be sent to the U.S. in ...