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AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships Have Flown Their Very First Combat Missions

AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships Have Flown Their Very First Combat Missions

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jul 11, 2019
The USAF Still Can’t Get The New AC-130J Ghostrider’s 30mm Cannon To Work Reliably

The USAF Still Can’t Get The New AC-130J Ghostrider’s 30mm Cannon To Work Reliably

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 30, 2019
USAF Eyeing New Props and Upgraded Engines To Breathe Extra Life Into Old C-130Hs

USAF Eyeing New Props and Upgraded Engines To Breathe Extra Life Into Old C-130Hs

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 30, 2019
The USAF Is Rebuilding World War II-Era 40mm Shells for its AC-130U Gunships

The USAF Is Rebuilding World War II-Era 40mm Shells for its AC-130U Gunships

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 30, 2019
This Is All The Stuff You Can Hang Out of a C-130’s Rear Paratrooper Doors

This Is All The Stuff You Can Hang Out of a C-130’s Rear Paratrooper Doors

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 30, 2019
The USAF’s AC-130W Gunships Are in Desperate Need of Special Ammunition

The USAF’s AC-130W Gunships Are in Desperate Need of Special Ammunition

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 30, 2019
F-22s Team Up With Combat Rescue Personnel to Practice for Quick Deployments

F-22s Team Up With Combat Rescue Personnel to Practice for Quick Deployments

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 29, 2019
USMC KC-130 Hercules Crashes and Burns in Mississippi Killing 16 (Updated)

USMC KC-130 Hercules Crashes and Burns in Mississippi Killing 16 (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jun 29, 2019
We May Finally Know What JADE HELM Has Stood For All Along

We May Finally Know What JADE HELM Has Stood For All Along

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 29, 2019
Protests Mount Against USAF Plan to Replace Aging Jamming Planes

Protests Mount Against USAF Plan to Replace Aging Jamming Planes

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 29, 2019
The USAF Finally Gives Its AC-130W Gunship The Big Gun It Desperately Needs

The USAF Finally Gives Its AC-130W Gunship The Big Gun It Desperately Needs

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 29, 2019
Russia Reportedly Developing Its Own AC-130-Like Gunship From Converted An-12 Cargo Planes

Russia Reportedly Developing Its Own AC-130-Like Gunship From Converted An-12 Cargo Planes

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jun 27, 2019
U.S. Navy Buys Blue Angels A Surplus Royal Air Force C-130J To Replace Fat Albert

U.S. Navy Buys Blue Angels A Surplus Royal Air Force C-130J To Replace Fat Albert

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jun 25, 2019
Enjoy Your Moment Of Zen With A.G. Bill Barr As He Stares Out The Back Of A C-130

Enjoy Your Moment Of Zen With A.G. Bill Barr As He Stares Out The Back Of A C-130

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Jun 2, 2019
The Blue Angels Have Retired Their Beloved Fat Albert C-130 Without A Replacement

The Blue Angels Have Retired Their Beloved Fat Albert C-130 Without A Replacement

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 24, 2019
Watch Four U.S. Special Operations C-130s Roar Through A Valley Together In The U.K.

Watch Four U.S. Special Operations C-130s Roar Through A Valley Together In The U.K.

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 22, 2019
Huge Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars As It Drifted Across The Midwest Remains A Mystery

Huge Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars As It Drifted Across The Midwest Remains A Mystery

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 17, 2019
Behold An MC-130J Spec Ops Transport With Its Badly Needed Terrain Following Radar Installed

Behold An MC-130J Spec Ops Transport With Its Badly Needed Terrain Following Radar Installed

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 16, 2019
USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J’s Self Defense Suite Into “Sauron’s Eye” Vision System

USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J’s Self Defense Suite Into “Sauron’s Eye” Vision System

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 2, 2019
Puerto Rico Air Guard’s C-130 Airlifters And Flying Role Are Being Taken Away

Puerto Rico Air Guard’s C-130 Airlifters And Flying Role Are Being Taken Away

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 12, 2019
Marines To Finally Add 30mm Cannon To Bolt-On “Harvest Hawk” Armament Kits For KC-130Js

Marines To Finally Add 30mm Cannon To Bolt-On “Harvest Hawk” Armament Kits For KC-130Js

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 21, 2019
Watch This C-130J Make An Incredible Flare-Popping Musical Flyover Of Sydney For Australia Day (Updated)

Watch This C-130J Make An Incredible Flare-Popping Musical Flyover Of Sydney For Australia Day (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jan 28, 2019
A West Virginia Air Guard C-130H Was Responsible For Massive Chaff Cloud Over Midwest

A West Virginia Air Guard C-130H Was Responsible For Massive Chaff Cloud Over Midwest

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 12, 2018
Conga Lines Of USAF Airlifters Filled The Night Sky Across U.S. For Joint Forcible Entry Drill

Conga Lines Of USAF Airlifters Filled The Night Sky Across U.S. For Joint Forcible Entry Drill

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 9, 2018
Marine F/A-18 And KC-130 Collide During Refueling Sending Both Into Waters Off Japan (Updated)

Marine F/A-18 And KC-130 Collide During Refueling Sending Both Into Waters Off Japan (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 6, 2018
Lockheed’s Wayne Roberts On Looping The Hercules, Test Flying, And All Things C-130

Lockheed’s Wayne Roberts On Looping The Hercules, Test Flying, And All Things C-130

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Aug 10, 2018
Harrowing Account Of How USAF C-130 Crews Snuck Into South Sudan To Evacuate Diplomats Under Fire

Harrowing Account Of How USAF C-130 Crews Snuck Into South Sudan To Evacuate Diplomats Under Fire

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Aug 9, 2018
AC-130W Gunship Pilots Help Target The Enemy With An Off The Shelf Rifle Sight

AC-130W Gunship Pilots Help Target The Enemy With An Off The Shelf Rifle Sight

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Aug 5, 2018
Forget The Fighters, Lockheed’s LM-100J Super Hercules Demo Slayed At Farnborough

Forget The Fighters, Lockheed’s LM-100J Super Hercules Demo Slayed At Farnborough

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jul 18, 2018
Check Out These Sweet Aerial Photos From The Royal Air Force’s Centenary Flypast Rehearsal

Check Out These Sweet Aerial Photos From The Royal Air Force’s Centenary Flypast Rehearsal

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jul 3, 2018
‘Harvester’ Could Transform Any US Air Force C-130 Into A Nuke Sniffing Plane

‘Harvester’ Could Transform Any US Air Force C-130 Into A Nuke Sniffing Plane

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 12, 2018
Crazy Low-Flying Saudi C-130 Buzzes Right Over A Soldier On The Ground In Yemen

Crazy Low-Flying Saudi C-130 Buzzes Right Over A Soldier On The Ground In Yemen

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 18, 2018
This New Video Showing DARPA’s Master Plan For Its Gremlins Drones Is Awesome

This New Video Showing DARPA’s Master Plan For Its Gremlins Drones Is Awesome

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 12, 2018
Germany, France Move Ahead With Joint C-130J Unit Amid Budget Woes and A400M Delays

Germany, France Move Ahead With Joint C-130J Unit Amid Budget Woes and A400M Delays

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 8, 2018
US Military Says Chinese Lasers Injured Pilots Flying A C-130 Near Its Base in Djibouti

US Military Says Chinese Lasers Injured Pilots Flying A C-130 Near Its Base in Djibouti

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 3, 2018
Puerto Rico National Guard WC-130 Hurricane Hunter Crashes In A Ball Of Fire In Georgia (Updated)

Puerto Rico National Guard WC-130 Hurricane Hunter Crashes In A Ball Of Fire In Georgia (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 3, 2018
American General Says ‘Adversaries’ Are Jamming AC-130 Gunships in Syria

American General Says ‘Adversaries’ Are Jamming AC-130 Gunships in Syria

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 25, 2018
This Is Our First Glimpse of a DARPA Gremlins Drone Being Launched or Recovered From A C-130

This Is Our First Glimpse of a DARPA Gremlins Drone Being Launched or Recovered From A C-130

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 11, 2018
Blue Angels Getting C-130J From Royal Air Force To Replace KC-130T Fat Albert Transport

Blue Angels Getting C-130J From Royal Air Force To Replace KC-130T Fat Albert Transport

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Mar 23, 2018
AC-130 Gunship Mysteriously Flew Hours Worth Of Laps Over Seattle on Tuesday (Updated)

AC-130 Gunship Mysteriously Flew Hours Worth Of Laps Over Seattle on Tuesday (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Mar 22, 2018
USAF Has Dispatched Its Air Sprayer C-130s To Texas In Response To Hurricane Harvey

USAF Has Dispatched Its Air Sprayer C-130s To Texas In Response To Hurricane Harvey

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Sep 8, 2017
Watch This C-130J Become Engulfed In Its Own Dust Storm During Rough Field Ops

Watch This C-130J Become Engulfed In Its Own Dust Storm During Rough Field Ops

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jul 1, 2017
Lockheed Unveils New Super Versatile Special Operations C-130 Variant

Lockheed Unveils New Super Versatile Special Operations C-130 Variant

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jun 21, 2017
Spec Ops MC-130 Provides Forward Arming And Refueling Point For F-22 Raptors

Spec Ops MC-130 Provides Forward Arming And Refueling Point For F-22 Raptors

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Mar 2, 2017
First Civilian Version of the C-130J Super Hercules Rolls Off the Assembly Line

First Civilian Version of the C-130J Super Hercules Rolls Off the Assembly Line

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Feb 10, 2017
This Video Of A Brazilian C-130 Hercules Crashing In Antarctica Is Nuts

This Video Of A Brazilian C-130 Hercules Crashing In Antarctica Is Nuts

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jan 24, 2017
The Mysterious C-130 Circling Manhattan on Tuesday Was Not Doing “Standard Training”

The Mysterious C-130 Circling Manhattan on Tuesday Was Not Doing “Standard Training”

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Dec 17, 2016
Landing In Maniitsoq Is Like Arriving On A Gorgeous Alien Ice Planet

Landing In Maniitsoq Is Like Arriving On A Gorgeous Alien Ice Planet

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Nov 28, 2016
Fat Albert C-130 Gives You A Buzz Cut In This Crazy Head-On Takeoff Video

Fat Albert C-130 Gives You A Buzz Cut In This Crazy Head-On Takeoff Video

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Jun 25, 2016
Marines To Turn Super Hercules, Osprey Fleets Into Missile Slinging Electronic Warfare Platforms

Marines To Turn Super Hercules, Osprey Fleets Into Missile Slinging Electronic Warfare Platforms

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on May 13, 2016