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See what battling California wildfires look like from cockpit of a C-130 aircraft
Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying missions over the wildfires in Southern ...
Who Makes The C-130 Military Transport Plane And How Many Have Been Made So Far?
The C-130 operates worldwide and is capable of carrying ... Depending on its mission, one aircraft can carry up to 90 ...
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USAF Testing Angry Kitten EW Pod on C-130 as F-16 Integration Progresses
(Image credit: ANG AFRC Test Centre via LinkedIn) Some testing has already been carried out for Angry Kitten’s integration onto the C-130. The pod is fitted using the Special Airborne Mission ...
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DHS head Kristi Noem flies C-130 while visiting Coast Guard’s far-flung Alaska station
President Trump’s DHS Secretary co-piloted a C-130 surveillance plane on Monday during a visit to US Coast Guard service members stationed in Air Station Kodiak in Alaska. Noem said the visit ...
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ALQ-167 Angry Kitten electronic warfare pod in testing on C-130s
The Angry Kitten pod was mounted to an AS-7 Special Airborne Mission Installation & Response (SABIR) retractable arm attached to the C-130's left paratrooper door, which was lowered below the ...
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EC-130H Compass Call
acquisition operator and an airborne maintenance technician) A heavily modified version of the C-130 Hercules airframe, the EC-130H Compass Call is the primary electronic attack and electronic ...
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EC-130J Commando Solo
Inventory: EC-130J, Active force, 0; Reserve, 0; ANG, 3; EC-130SJ Super J, Active force, 0; Reserve, 0; ANG, 4 Modified from the adaptable C-130 Hercules airframe ...