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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

But a derivative of the C-130, the AC-130 gunship, is a deceptively lethal ground-attack aircraft that has served with the U.S. Air Force since the 1960s. Loaded with a variety of gatling guns ...

Duty stations: Vietnam, Thailand; Clark Air Force Base, Philippine Islands; Tacoma, Wash.; Phoenix, Ariz. His story: Alan Price wanted to be an Air Force pilot from the time he was in sixth grade.

[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 ...

The air force would increase its efforts to receive the Executive Yuan’s approval for a project to upgrade the capabilities of 19 C-130 Hercules aircraft, which is estimated to cost more than NT$10 ...

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 ...