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C-130 News: YARS’ C-130H aircraft need to be either updated or replaced with new C-130J models
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U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman announced Tuesday that the Senate passed their joint amendment to the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act to strengthen the Youngstown Air Reserve Station and its mission capabilities. Specifically, the amendment directs the Air Force to report on how it will prioritize upgrades to provide new C-130J aircraft for facilities that include special mission units, such as aerial spray, airborne firefighting and weather reconnaissance. The 910th is the Department of Defense’s only large-area, fixed-wing aerial spray unit. Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, and Portman, a Cincinnati-area Republican, have been urging th…
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International Air Response's N118TG (ex-USAF RC-130A 57-0512) c/n 3219 View full article
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The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing transported 3,900 people, and carried 4 million pounds of supplies and 1.2 million pounds of fuel to stations around Antarctica during its annual support five- month mission for the National Science Foundation which ended this week. The wing, which flies the LC-130, a Hercules transport equipped with skies, began flying missions in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program in October, 2015 as part of Operation Deep Freeze, the U.S. military’s support for Antarctic research. The wing wrapped up its mission at the end of February and the six LC-130 “Ski Birds” – the only ski-equipped aircraft in the U.S. inventory—and…
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CAPITOL HILL: The law is the law. But the law must be written and it must then be interpreted in practice. Ay, there’s the rub. Add the National Guard, local politics, aging C-130s, and a wobbly defense budget in which hard choices must be made, and you’ve got a potent mix. That became abundantly clear Wednesday afternoon during a very brief hearing of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee. Rep. Jim Bridenstine laid into the head of Air Force acquisition, Billl LaPlante, and his colleague, Lt. Gen. James “Mike” Holmes, the deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements. Holmes told the subcommittee he was “most concerned…
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L-3 Communications announced today that its Platform Integration division has delivered an upgraded C-130 aircraft to Argentina as part of a U.S. Air Force Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. The delivery was the first of five aircraft scheduled to receive avionics and systems modernization. Under the program, L-3 installed new communication, navigation and air traffic management systems avionics capabilities, as well as a reliability upgrade on critical environmental and power systems to increase mission availability. Several aircraft are slated to be fitted with special electro-optical equipment to expand the mission role of the Argentine Air Force. “The coc…
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