Here’s What You Need to Know: With a range of more than 2,000 miles, a C-130 mothership could bring its squadron of drones closer to the target, rather than forcing them to fly hundreds or thousands ...

Lockheed’s long-lived C-130 Hercules has enjoyed an incredible career, and continues to serve some 60 nations in a variety of roles. Kelly Johnson made few mistakes as Lockheed’s star engineer, but he ...

Concept for a C-130 floatplane. U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command is developing removable floats for its MC-130J Commando II transports. Bolt on the floats, and the normally land-based MC-130 ...

The Mexican air force added a new C-130J Hercules transport plane to its fleet. Here are all the modernizations that came ...

Lockheed Martin started building its latest civilian version of the iconic C-130 Hercules in Marietta, Georgia earlier this week. The company's new LM-100J will bring the advancements of the C-130J ...

Amidst the chaotic withdrawal of American forces from Saigon in April 1975, a young man in the South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF), Tinh Nguyen, peered out from a bunker at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. The ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force believes it can sustain and upgrade 92 of its oldest C-130 military transport aircraft even as it aims to downsize the overall Hercules fleet over the next few years, according to ...