The U.S. Department of Defense said Wednesday that Lockheed Martin won a $51 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract in support of the French Air Force for long-term sustainment of C-130 aircraft. Per the contract, Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin will provide for the program management, field service representatives, travel and per diem, data, replenishment of spares […]

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday that Poland has signed a contract for five ex-US Air Force C-130H Hercules airlifters. “We have signed a contract to acquire 5 C-130H aircraft under the Excess Defense Articles program,” said Mariusz Blaszczak. As part of the Excess Defence Articles program, excess defense articles and military equipment […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded the StandardAero a contract for T56 engine depot level repairs in support of the P-3 Orion, C-130 Hercules and C-2A Greyhound aircraft.  The U.S. Department of Defense said Monday that San Antonio-based StandardAero won $148,9 million for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure T56 engine depot level repairs. Within the contract, […]

A Bangladesh Air Force C-130 transport plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport in Russia. Local officials said two of the plane’s four turboprops failed and it landed safely at Khabarovsk International airport in the Russian Far East. Damage to the aircraft has not been determined. It is specified that there are no casualties […]

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The U.S. Air Force is considering transforming all of its C-130 and C-17 cargo planes into cruise missile carriers, according to a Lockheed Martin press release. In a release late Wednesday, Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp announced that the U.S. Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) Office awarded a $25 million […]

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A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday at the airport of Odessa in Ukraine, the Dumskaya.net says. According to Dumskaya.net, a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron, has made an emergency landing at Odessa International Airport in Ukraine after one of […]

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A unit of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has been spotted inside Ukraine after photographs were posted online on Twitter. A two CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and Lockheed MC-130J Commando II transport aircraft assigned to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command were spotted at Vinnytsia Airbase, Ukraine on 16 September. The photos […]

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