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Mojave Drone Rapid Deployment From C-130 Shown In New Concept Video
By Oliver Parken / Updated May 10, 2023
Amphibious C-130 Won’t Fly For Two To Three More Years
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 9, 2023
Retirement Of MC-130H Speeds Up MC-130J Low-Flying Radar Upgrade
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 11, 2023
Single Pilot C-130J Operations Being Explored By Air Force
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Mar 10, 2023
AC-130J Gunship Unleashes Hell On South Korean Island
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 6, 2023
C-130 Seaplane Program Put On Back Burner (Updated)
By Howard Altman / Updated Feb 2, 2023
C-130 Simulates Refueling M1 Abrams Tank During Exercise
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Dec 20, 2022
Special Ops C-130 Tests Pallet-Dropped Cruise Missiles In The Arctic
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 9, 2022
C-130 Seaplane Should Fly In 2023 Says Air Force Special Ops Commander
By Howard Altman / Updated Sep 21, 2022
AC-130 Gunships Used ‘Big Ass Green Lasers’ During Kabul Evacuation
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 2, 2022
Our First Look At An AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship’s New 105mm Gun
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 31, 2022
This Is Our First Look At The Navy’s Next ‘Doomsday Plane,’ The EC-130J TACAMO
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 5, 2022
AC-130 Gunships Are Finally Getting A New 105mm Howitzer
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 20, 2022
A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter Can Fit Inside A C-130
By Brian O'Rourke / Updated Jan 3, 2022
Watch This C-130 Run For Its Life At Low Level From A Mock Enemy Missile Crew
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 31, 2021
Behold The Naked Warplanes Of Tinker Air Force Base
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 30, 2021
C-130 Successfully Snatches Gremlins Drone In Midair
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 5, 2021
C-130s Operate From A Wyoming Highway To Train To Fight Against A Major Adversary
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Sep 16, 2021
It Looks Like A C-130 Seaplane Is Finally Happening
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 15, 2021
Special Operations Command Wants Tiny Cruise Missiles With Hundreds Of Miles Range
By Michael Peck / Updated Sep 7, 2021
Curious Mission Flown Over The Baltic Sea By U.S. Air Force Nuke Sniffing Plane
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 6, 2021
The Marine Corps Just Said Goodbye To Its Last Legacy C-130 Hercules Transport Plane
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 7, 2021
Targeting Pods Are Being Tested On Air National Guard C-130 Hercules Transports (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 16, 2021
The Navy’s Wants To Go Back To Flying The C-130 Hercules As Its Next Doomsday Plane
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 21, 2020
Qatar Executes An Incredible “Elephant Walk” Showcasing Its Growing Air Combat Might
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 17, 2020
DARPA’s Gremlins Drones Were “Just Inches” From Successfully Being Recovered In Flight
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 11, 2020
Check Out This AC-130 Gunship Pilot Wearing A Scorpion Helmet Mounted Display
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Check Out The Hulk Of That C-130J That Collided With An F-35B Over Southern California
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 24, 2020
Here’s Who’s Bought Those Retired Singapore Air Force KC-135R Tankers
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 12, 2020
Listen To Intense Air Traffic Control Audio Of KC-130J’s Collision With An F-35B
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 30, 2020
Video Emerges Of Marine F-35B Crashing In A Ball Of Fire After Colliding With A KC-130J
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 30, 2020
Marine F-35B And KC-130J Collide And Crash In Southern California (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 30, 2020
The Blue Angels’ New Fat Albert C-130J Has Flown For The First Time
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 20, 2020
Unusual High-Altitude Spy Plane Appears at Special Operations Exercise
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Check Out The Blue Angels’ New Fat Albert C-130J In All Its Glory
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2020
Photographer Catches Formation Of C-130 Transports Flying Through A California Canyon
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 31, 2020
Air Force Eyes “Bomb Bay In A Box” To Rapidly Turn Airlifters Into Flying Weapon Trucks
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 20, 2020
Did The Blue Angels’ New Fat Albert C-130 Just Buzz San Francisco Bay? (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 21, 2020
Check Out The Crazy Radar That Lies Beneath The MC-130H Combat Talon II’s Gonzo Nose
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 30, 2019
Unwrap These Ten Insanely Awesome Viral Aviation Videos This Christmas
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 24, 2019
USAF MC-130J Spec Ops Transport Flies Through Taiwan Strait With U.S. Spy Plane Nearby
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 29, 2019
A C-130 Hercules Transport Crash Landed At Santa Barbara Airport (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 26, 2019
AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships Have Flown Their Very First Combat Missions
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 10, 2019
The USAF Still Can’t Get The New AC-130J Ghostrider’s 30mm Cannon To Work Reliably
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
USAF Eyeing New Props and Upgraded Engines To Breathe Extra Life Into Old C-130Hs
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
The USAF Is Rebuilding World War II-Era 40mm Shells for its AC-130U Gunships
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
This Is All The Stuff You Can Hang Out of a C-130’s Rear Paratrooper Doors
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The USAF’s AC-130W Gunships Are in Desperate Need of Special Ammunition
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
F-22s Team Up With Combat Rescue Personnel to Practice for Quick Deployments
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
We May Finally Know What JADE HELM Has Stood For All Along
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019