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Rolls-Royce has delivered its 2,000th AE 2100 engine, which was installed onto a US Air Force C-130J by Lockheed Martin. This major milestone reflects the continued success of Rolls-Royce as the world’s leading engine manufacturer for military transport. The AE 2100 line has proven itself in operations around the globe, accumulating more than 8 million engine flight hours of dependable service, primarily on C-130J aircraft produced by Lockheed Martin. The AE 2100 also powers C-27J aircraft, the Japanese US-2 sea rescue aircraft and a fleet of Saab 2000 civil turboprop aircraft. From military transport to civil passenger service, and from sea rescue to humanitarian effort…
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The company will also provide logistics support for the US Marines KC-130J transport aircraft. These four-engined planes are equipped with air-to-air tanking equipment that allows them to refuel other aircraft in flight. Under the terms of the $63.5m arrangement, Rolls-Royce will also support similar aircraft in service with Kuwait’s military. Read the entire article at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/11675943/Rolls-Royce-lands-deals-to-support-foreign-miltary-planes.html View full article
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On the eve of the International Training and Education Conference (ITEC), Europe’s largest show for simulation and training, CAE and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) congratulate the Royal Air Force (RAF) on having operated its C-130J total training system for more than 15 years. The RAF was the launch customer for the C-130J Super Hercules, and the team of Lockheed Martin and CAE delivered the comprehensive aircrew and maintenance training system that entered service at RAF Lyneham in early 2000. Since its relocation to RAF Brize Norton, home of the RAF’s transport and tanker aircraft fleets, the C-130J total training system continues to support the aircrews and technicians …
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Sagem is preparing to offer an armed upgrade package for the French Air Force's Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, company officials told IHS Jane's . The upgrade would include arming the Hercules with the SSA-1101 Gerfaut system, allowing the C-130 to carry and deploy as many as eight Sagem AASM (Armement Air-Sol Modulaire) precision guided munitions (PGMs). The SSA-1101 Gerfaut has been under development since 2012 by Sagem, Rafaut, and AA/ROK. "We can guarantee a range of 30 km for an AASM dropped at 25,000 ft and 190 kt," a Sagem official told IHS Jane's . The company will soon make an unsolicited bid to the French defense procurement agency, the DGA…
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Sunday in the largest formation flown by the 166th Airlift Wing since its departure for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.The rare formation flight of six of the massive aircraft to New Jersey – training more than 40 aircrew members, along with uncounted maintenance and support personnel on the ground – was to include low-level flying routes and several actual airdrops.The Wing permanently is assigned eight such aircraft, but due to worldwide commitments and long-term maintenance, rarely flies more than five in a formation.Base Commander Col. Michael J. Feeley had a base-wide commander's call on the flight line before takeoff to recognize the significance of the event that …
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Acquisition of transport aircraft to replace the SA Air Force’s (SAAF) ageing C-130BZs has, by at least one account, been underway for close on a year. Diplomatic sources have indicated South Africa, as a country, requested information on pricing and availability of C-130s last May. This information was delivered during the Africa Aerospace and Defense (AAD) exhibition at AFB Waterkloof in September. While the number or model of aircraft is not mentioned, it is believed the SAAF is keen on acquiring the J model which Lockheed Martin has been actively marketing to the airborne arm of the SA National Defense Force (SANDF) for some time now. The source told defenceWeb tha…
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Spirit Aeronautics has successfully developed an avionics upgrade program that is aimed at modernising Lockheed C-130H/L-382 Hercules aircraft. The new development will give the aircraft new landing technology in addition to NextGen capabilities such as automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B). ADS-B can be integrated with flight management systems (FMS) in order to deliver increased safety and reduced aircrew workload, the company stated. Spirit Aeronautics president and COO Tony Bailey said: "We established a team of experts and centered their efforts towards creating a modernisation path for operators that utilise commercially available and proven systems …
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The seventh C-130 at the Ohio National Guard's 179th Airlift Wing at Mansfield Lahm Airport has a new name. About twenty-five local government and community leaders from Ashland were at the base Thursday for the dedication of the Spirit of Ashland, with Mayor Glen Stewart having the honor of unveiling the plant's new name. Of the eight C-130's at the 179th, another two planes remain to be re-named for local communities. The dedication of the Spirit of Crestline will be in two weeks and there will be a dedication of a C-130 for the community of Galion. The others are the Spirits of Mansfield, Shelby, Clear Fork Valley, Ontario, and Lexington. View original article …
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Sweden has begun reducing its operational Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules fleet as it looks for a replacement for the ageing airlifters, a service official disclosed on 29 April. Speaking at the home of F17 Wing’s forward dispersal base on the island of Gotland, Colonel Marcus Bjorkgren, Chief of Staff of the Swedish Air Force (SwAF), said that two of the country’s eight C-130H aircraft had been flown to Marshall Aerospace in the UK, where they are to remain. “We have six C-130s now being operated, with two parked at Marshalls. We may go down to four, and we will hopefully have something else [as a replacement]in the future,” he said. Having received the first of its C…
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For those who may have missed it (I am one of you), below is a link to the Fast and the Furious 7 trailer. International Air Response's C-130 N119TG (USAF 57-0520, n138FF) c/n 3227 is looking good for her age but I do have to say, she is getting a little wide in the middle. View full article
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More than 120 Team Dyess volunteers completed a major restoration project of 36 aircraft June 12, finishing the refurbishment of the C-130E Hercules near the front gate at the Linear Air Park. Originally established through the Texas Museum of Military History in 1981, the park is a two-mile-long outdoor exhibit showcasing the historic success of U.S. Air Force and Army Air Corps' use of airpower since the 1940s. Thirty-five aircraft were refurbished, including the addition to the park of an RB-66B Destroyer and F-15A Strike Eagle, before the 2015 Dyess Big Country Airfest in May. The C-130E was the final piece of the puzzle, making it the 36th aircraft restored and fin…
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Terma and Lockheed Martin have signed a contract for the integration of the Elettronica ELT/572 directional infrared counter measures (DIRCM) on the Italian Air Force's C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. The contract will see the installation of DIRCM on some aircraft of Italy's C-130J/KC-130J fleet. Lockheed Martin C-130 Programs vice-president and general manager George Shultz said: "This integrated DIRCM system provides the Italian Air Force' C-130Js with an essential self-defense capability that protects aircrews as they support a number of vital missions around the world." The new development will mark the first fully integrated DIRCM solution installation on C-130J …
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C-130 News: Tester and Daines working for C-130 upgrades for the Montana Air National Guard
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GREAT FALLS - U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-MT) and Steve Daines (R-MT) are working to keep the Montana Air National Guard flying. During a recent meeting of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, Tester announced he was introducing legislation to make sure the C-130 fleet of the 120th Airlift Wing is upgraded. Tester said, “My fear is we end up with a fleet of C-130s that is incapable of operating in domestic air space, and they will end up sitting on a runway somewhere until they are mothballed.” The Federal Aviation Administration has set a deadline for the upgrades for 2020. Tester's bill will give the Air Force the budgetary flexibility it needs to implem…
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Vibration problems threaten to delay the AC-130J The U.S. Air Force’s newest AC-130J Ghostrider gunships will enter service later than expected because of plans to load extra weapons on the four-engine planes. But the Pentagon’s top weapons tester is even more worried that other nagging problems could hold up the aircraft.In 2014, crews had trouble picking out targets because the two prototypes were shaking so much in the air, according to the latest annual report from the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. On top of that, one of the aircraft had a mid-air accident that completely shut down test flights. “Several problems require resolution and will affect the …
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The first of the seven HC-130Hs that are being transferred from the Coast Guard to the U.S. Forest Service will arrive at Forest Service Air Station McClellan (FSAS MCC) in mid-June, not mid-May as originally planned. And yes, that is what the Forest Service is calling their facility at McClellan Airport in Sacramento, California. The aircraft will still be a work in progress when it lands at MCC. It will not have the paint job as seen above, but will be gray and white with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System MAFFS markings, according to Jennifer Jones, a USFS spokesperson for the USFS. The gravity-based retardant tank will not have been installed, …
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C-130J 10-5771 c/n 5771 was delivered to the 61st Airlift Squadron 9 July. The last of 19th AW's 28 programmed C-130Js is scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2016. Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Harry Brexel, Little Rock AFB Facebook Page View full article
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The U.S. Air Force is winnowing down its fleet of EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack planes. The 15 high-tech jammers belong to the 55th Electronic Combat Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. But if the flying branch has its way, it will retire seven at the turn of the fiscal year in October, according to the Pentagon's budget request. They're few in number, but highly important planes. These are same EC-130Hs that twice shut down Saddam Hussein's air defenses, and helped American pilots and troops return home alive from the conflicts in Kosovo, Haiti, Panama, Serbia and more recently Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Compass Calls are heavily-modif…
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But the Savings wouldn't pay for a single new bomberThe U.S. Air Force is winnowing down its fleet of EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack planes.The 15 high-tech jammers belong to the 55th Electronic Combat Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. But if the flying branch has its way, it will retire seven at the turn of the fiscal year in October, according to the Pentagon’s latest budget request.They’re few in number, but highly important planes. These are same EC-130Hs that twice shut down Saddam Hussein’s air defenses, and helped American pilots and troops return home alive from the conflicts in Kosovo, Haiti, Panama, Serbia and more recently Libya, Afghani…
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a measure by North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis that Tillis said would keep C130H aircraft at Fort Bragg’s Pope Airfield even if the Air Force goes ahead with plans to inactivate the 440th Airlift Wing. Tillis in a statement said that the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would move nine upgraded C-130H aircraft to Pope Airfield at Fort Bragg. They would replace the six aircraft that the Air Force plans to remove, Tillis said. The Air Force plans to inactivate the air wing as a budget-saving move. The 440th Air Wing, which supports global response and special operations units, is staffed by more than 1,000 R…
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MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 17, 2015 – Crews from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Coast Guard recently ferried two C-130J Super Hercules aircraft from the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) facility here. The Air Force crew ferried a C-130J-30 to Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, while the Coast Guard crew ferried an HC-130J to New Mexico to be painted. It will then be flown to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina View full article
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5/1/2015 - POPE ARMY AIRFIELD, N.C. -- U.S. Air Force and British Royal Air Force Mobility Airmen and 25 aircraft conducted the largest multinational Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise over the last 20 years alongside U.S. Army and British soldiers here Apr. 10 through Apr. 17. The purpose of this exercise was to prepare United States Transportation Command units, Air Mobility Command, Royal Air Force forces and elements of the 82nd Airborne Division and British Army's 16 Air Assault Brigade to respond as part of the Global Response Force and to conduct Joint Forcible Entry operations. The GRF is a force dedicated to maintaining the capability of deploying on sh…
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LONDON — A Royal Air Force C-130J Hercules is set to take to the air in the next few days to recommence trials of a major upgrade to the aircraft that is so late it has already been rolled into a subsequent improvement program. Fitted out with an extensive suite of software and hardware improvements known as Block 7, the British C-130J kit installation trials aircraft is set to undertake months of operational test and evaluation (OT&E) work ahead of being further modified by prime contractor Lockheed Martin with additional capabilities known as Block 8.1. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said British flight trials on the Block 8.1 improvements are set to be completed…
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Click here: More than 110 killed in Indonesian military plane crash - Al Jazeera English
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The first flight of an Israeli air force Lockheed Martin C-130H equipped with a new avionics suite is expected to take place soon, according to a senior officer from the service. "The new suite will make the cockpit very similar to operate to that of the C-130J we have recently put into service," says the officer, with work on the legacy transport almost complete. Israel's C-130H avionics upgrade is being conducted by Elbit Systems at the air force's Nevatim base. The package of enhancements will allow the tactical transport aircraft to meet the stringent international Communications Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management standard for operations in commercia…
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The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City invited a number of Vietnamese reporters to a session that introduced the features of the C-130 Hercules aircraft coded 1459 at Da Nang International Airport, according to Infonet, the news website of the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications.The turboprop military transport aircraft is 29.3 meters long and 11.9 meters tall, and has a wingspan of 39.7 meters, Tuoi Tre Online said.It has four Allison T56-A-15 propeller jet engines with a capacity of 4,591 HP and can fly at 366 kph in all weather conditions, the newswire added.This kind of plane is mainly used to transport people an…
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