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 ...

The C-130 is the world's most prolific cargo hauler and it's been adapted to do pretty much everything imaginable with one exception: operating on water. Yet some of the folks at Lockheed wanted to do ...

Later this year, the U.S. Air Force will do something unprecedented. It will sign a contract to purchase more tactical airlifters from a program that first began turning out planes 60 years ago. The ...

The United States Air Force’s combat aircraft like the B-52 and F-35 often get all the glory, but a fact remains that the U.S. military relies on aircraft like the Lockheed C-130 Hercules more than ...

The KC-130 is one of the oldest aircraft currently in service in the U.S. Marine Corps Lockheed Martin recently delivered its 2,700th Hercules aircraft in June There are a number of different variants ...

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Turkey will acquire 12 ex-RAF C-130J Hercules from the UK, with Marshall Group preparing the aircraft for service to boost Ankara’s medium-lift fleet.

You can't fly to low-Earth orbit on a government-surplus Space Shuttle Atlantis. But what you can do, if you're wealthy and fortunate enough and wealthy enough, you might be able to buy some genuine ...

A decommissioned C-130 Hercules Air Force cargo plane has been delivered to the University of Dayton for research. Here, C-130s taxi out for a six-ship sortie at Yokota Air Base, Japan. (Master Sgt.

According to Greek Mythology, Hercules was a demigod with incredible strength and stamina, capable of amazing feats and renowned throughout ancient Greece and Rome. While we'd never suggest that the C ...

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 ...