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Russia’s Old Bomber Force Is Now In a ‘Window of Vulnerability’
Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike on June 1st, which reportedly destroyed or damaged numerous irreplaceable Soviet ...
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Besides Being Great at Almost Everything, the C-130 Hercules Is a Pretty Decent Bomber
News flash, the C-130 Hercules and its variants and descendants ... As it turns out, it occasionally even takes on a second job as a strategic bomber. The story of how the Lockheed-Martin C ...
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See the US military's special C-130 Hercules water bombers that are joining the LA wildfire fight
Containing the blaze More than 600 personnel, 10 rotary-wing aircraft, and two C-130 Hercules aircraft from the California National Guard were deployed to battle the blaze. The Biden ...
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Inside Lockheed Martin’s ‘Hercules’ plant where a crucial piece of American hardware is born
Over the 70 years, Lockheed Martin has produced 2,700 of the "Hercules" or "Herc," with nearly half remaining in service. NEWEST AIR FORCE STEALTH BOMBER, THE $750M B-21 RAIDER, TAKES FIRST ...
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How the Air Force Turned a C-130 Cargo Plane Into a Missile-Slinging Bomber
Instead, a bomber can always carry large numbers of ... with live missiles that slide out and self-launch. A C-130J Super Hercules can carry six missiles, and a larger C-17 Globemaster III can ...
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LC-130H Skibird Of the 109th Airlift Wing Lands on Freshwater Ice In Canada for the First Time
On Mar. 5, 2025, an LC-130H Hercules of the 109th Airlift Wing successfully landed on a frozen lake during Operation Nanook-Nunalivut in Inuvik, Canada, marking the first time in the history of ...