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The Airbus A400M Atlas [nb 1] is a European four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft.It was designed by Airbus Military, now Airbus Defence and Space, as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities to replace older transport aircraft, such as the Transall C-160 and the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. [3]
A Super Hercules cockpit. On 16 December 1994, Lockheed received the launch order for the J-model from the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF). [2] The C-130J launch order occurred after a UK government stalemate of several months that concerned whether to buy new transport aircraft from Europe or the United States.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac , and cargo transport aircraft .
In February 2023, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, reported that the RAF hoped to acquire up to six additional A400M aircraft later in the decade, in part to replace the capabilities formerly provided by the RAF's C-130 fleet. [45] Current and future units. 70 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton
in December 2020 (Fiscal Year 2021), the US Navy announced that it awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the purchase the C-130J-30 Hercules as testbed for the TACAMO mission [3] The aircraft selection represents a return to the C-130 platform by the Navy, which for years used the EC-130Q (an older variant despite the higher letter) for the ...
The 'Blackcats' received their first C-130J on 13 March 2007, this marked the start of the squadron's replacement of their elderly C-130H Hercules transporters. [ 5 ] On 26 July 2019, the 41st Airlift Squadron was awarded the 2018 General Joseph Smith Trophy for being the most outstanding airlift squadron in Air Mobility Command for 2018.
In 2008, the squadron began modernising its C-130H Hercules aircraft with new avionics, centre wing refurbishment, aircraft systems upgrade, and complete re-wiring and replacement of major parts and interior to extend their life expectancy (for NZ$234 million). The package for each aircraft was known as the Life Extension Programme (LEP).
USCG HC-130H flying in Hawaii, 2015. A USAF HC-130P refuels an HH-3E Jolly Green Giant, 1968. USCG HC-130H on International Ice Patrol duties. The Lockheed HC-130 is an extended-range, search and rescue (SAR)/combat search and rescue (CSAR) version of the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, with two different versions operated by two separate services in the U.S. armed forces.