Over 2,800 C-130 Hercules family aircraft have been produced, with around 1,100 examples in service around the world today. The aircraft remains in production, with new aircraft mostly replacing older ...

News flash, the C-130 Hercules and its variants and descendants can do just about anything. Obnoxious quips aside, there's seemingly no limit to what you can shove into the rear cargo bay of one of ...

How a USAF airlifter came to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The successes achieved in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury were achieved through the combined and complementary efforts of many different US aircraft. Although it lost out on a prospective ...

The 19th Airlift Wing is one of the many unsung units of the U.S. Air Force, the ones tasked not necessarily with conducting battle, but with making sure other units can do so effectively. It also ...

At Mesa Gateway Airport, a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft sits ready for action, loaded with up to 4,000 gallons of water ...

The plan to phase out the RAF C-130 Hercules fleet in a couple of years has been made official. “The Royal Air Force will retire the BAe146 as planned by 2022 and take the C130 Hercules out of service ...

Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Hercules is celebrating 70 years since its first flight. It is the longest-running military aircraft production program in history, according to Rod McLean, general manager of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Colombian Air Force Hercules C-130 crashed in Puerto Leguizamo, Monday, March 23rd. The Hercules aircraft was carrying two ...

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been in production for 60 years, longer than any other military aircraft. As it prepares to enter its eighth decade of service, the C-130 has no retirement plans, so ...

Fighter jocks get all the glory. A couple months back, we introduced you to the 10 most popular fighter jets in the world-- and to the companies that build them, and the stocks that profit from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Updates with detail on 2002 California crash in paragraph 8) Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Lockheed C-130 Hercules tanker fighting ...