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 ...

The Marine KC-130 tanker plane that crashed into a mountain in Pakistan last month was not equipped with night-vision equipment, which has been installed in some Marine KC-130 aircraft in the United ...

An AGM-114 is one of the missile options that can be fired by a KC-130 Harvest Hawk. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps A new operational focus has prompted the U.S. Marine Corps to rethink the future ...

We Talk to Retired U.S. Marine Corps Pilot John Trotti About Midair Refueling. “I’m not sure I’d characterize Air-to-Air refueling (AAR) itself as risky. Rather, I always thought of it as requiring ...

Marines with the Joint Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, prepare for take-off aboard a KC-130J Hercules aircraft on Kadena Air Force Base on Sept. 27, 2018. US ...

U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) participate in a KC-130J Hercules tactics exercise as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 2-26, near Yuma, ...

Marines with the Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Bats Squadron 242 (VMFA (AW)-242 Bats), Marine Air Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing before taking off in the F/A-18D Hornet at Marine Corps Air ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Dropping bombs out of cargo planes has been a common measure of desperation for under-equipped air forces and opportunistic mercenaries throughout the history of ...

May 29 (UPI) --Stewart Air National Guard Base, N.Y., received its first KC-130J Super Hercules tanker plane, manufacturer Lockheed Martin said Friday. The plane was ferried from its Marietta, Ga., ...

A multinational search operation has located wreckage from a Chilean Air Force Lockheed KC-130 Hercules that crashed during a flight from Chile to Antarctica on Dec. 9. Ships and aircraft scouring the ...