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Are you refering to 168069 (5660) and 168070 (5661)? That would be #43 and #44 for the USMC. One of my sources said it was delivered to VMGR-152 at MCAS Futenma, but I cannot confirm as there is no second source or picture so far.

The following two KC-130Js have been confirmed as delivered: 5645 168066 VMGR-152 MCAS Futenma 5646 168067 VMGR-352 MCAS Miramar The delivery of 168068 (5647) for VMGR-352 will be the 42nd USMC KC-130J. There is talk that the USMC order got bumped up to 47 because the last one will be the Fat Albert replacement for the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team, which is currently a USMC KC-130T staffed by Marines.

The December 2010 issue has been posted. Afew of the headlines: Chant to the C-130 Colorado AF Reservists battle Israeli wildfires Crew Chief maintains C-130s in Afghanistan Hey, hey, hey ... Fat Albert helps out Santa C-130 Program welcomes new vice president http://cc-130j.ca/2010/december-2010-issue-of-proven-posted/

KC-130J 168068 (5647) for VMGR-352 was in flight test 07 Dec 10, likely delivery by end of this week. http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Marines/Lockheed-Martin-KC-130J/1837922/M/

You would be surprised. I've used the sim at my airport and it is pretty close to the Cessnas that I fly, but the Air Force uses much more advanced 360 degree full motion simulators with complete cockpits. "The WST is where all the ground training comes together. These motion-based simulators, which look like large white boxes on stilts, feature highly detailed visual systems and fully operational cockpits. The training goes from simulating simple flights to replicating complicated, low-level combat missions in Afghanistan. Mission planning for a four-hour WST ride gets as detailed as planning for a flight. Everything is replicated—radio calls, weather, even the constant hum of propellers turning. It is as close to flying a mission as possible without ordering a box lunch." This is a pic from the WST.

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=64 A few excerpts: The 314th AW trains approximately 1,800 C-130E/H and C-130J aircrew members annually—about 450 daily—from the US and from nearly thirty-five countries around the world. Close to 1,600 Hercules maintainers from the US and from more than fifteen allied nations are also trained every year. Students arrive or depart The Rock, as the base is commonly known, almost every working day. Similar to a college architecture or computer science laboratory, the lights at Hercules University are on from dawn to dusk and late into the night. “A student begins with a half-day of in-processing,” said Chuck Cash, the Lockheed Martin JMATS deputy program manager. “They get their school-issued laptop loaded with all the courseware, lessons, and anything else they will need. Then they take a tour of the building. When they come back from lunch, they start training.” The laptops are returned and reused when the students complete their training. Meanwhile, the ATS students across the courtyard receive a disk with everything they need for legacy Hercules training when they start. The students can keep the disk. The introduction of sophisticated technology greatly helped reduce the cost of training. “The commercial airlines do very little actual flying training with new pilots. Their training is done in high fidelity simulators,” Mordente added. “It required a little bit of a mindset change, but once the Air Force saw that all qualification requirements and standards were still being met, resistance to simulator-focused training started going away.” As a result, a lot more training has now migrated to simulators. “We have twenty-five early 1960s-vintage C-130Es for training now, and our maintainers do a great job of keeping them flying,” Lear observed. “But the E-models are scheduled for retirement by the end of 2011. We’ll then migrate to the C-130H2. We also have seven C-130Js and could use a couple more. We need them.” See the original article for much more.

LM has officially delivered the first C-130J to DMCA on behalf of India. KC-3802 (SN 5639) will be flown to India in February along with KC-3801 (SN 5638).

DCMA = Defense Contract Management Agency

Good update from another thread.

The following are planned deliveries for 2010, according to my sources: 5638 KC-3801 India 16 Dec 5644 168065 VMGR-152 May have been delivered 5645 168066 VMGR-152 5646 168067 VMGR-352 5647 168068 VMGR-352 5648 08-3174 Dyess 5th for Dyess 5646 and 5647 are going to VMGR-352 if you go by their tail codes. Lockheed Martin counts them as "delivered" upon acceptance, and not necessarily when they are in country.

Please don't cut and past an entire article next time. It's a copyright violation and the site could get in trouble. The guy who writes this for a living depends on us actually visiting the website so he can get paid and continue writing.

The C-27J uses the AE2100-D2A, a very close variant of the AE2100D3.

The 1000th Rolls-Royce AE 2100D3 engine made its first flight last week, Dec. 1, in Marietta, Ga., onboard a new Lockheed Martin KC-130J variant destined for the U.S. Marine Corps' fleet. The AE 2100D3 engine is a lightweight, modular turboprop engine from the 'common core' AE engine product line manufactured by Rolls-Royce Corp. in Indianapolis, Ind. With more than four million hours of proven AE engine military service and more than 38 million hours in civil use, the Rolls-Royce AE engine product line provides unparalleled reliability to our military and civil customers around the world. The crew onboard were Lockheed Martin pilots Chuck Nelson and Mark Sasscer and Loadmaster Rick James. This Lockheed Martin aircraft is one of 47 KC-130Js on order by the USMC, of which 38 have been delivered to date. (Photo: Lockheed Martin) SN 5646 is tail number 168067 destined for VMGR-352. It will be the 41st KC-130J for the USMC when delivered.

India’s next three C-130Js have now reached the final production positions at the Lockheed Martin Marietta facility. These aircraft will join the previous three, which are already in flight test prior to deliveries that will begin later this month. The first C-130J for India will be formally delivered on Dec. 16 at a ceremony in Marietta. Two will be flown to India in early 2011, while two more will arrive in early summer and the last two will be delivered in late summer of 2011 Final 3: 5653 KC-3804 5654 KC-3805 5655 KC-3806 Picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/5247459098/sizes/o/in/photostream/

#14 and #15 KC-130Js for VMGR-152

Any updates? This is how I figure FA looks like: 5653 KC-3804 India 5654 KC-3805 India 5655 KC-3806 Last Indian herk (for now) 5656 09-6207 MC130J First USAF MC-130J 5657 09-6208 MC130J 5658 09-6209 MC130J

Both of the last two KC-130J for VMGR-152 were in flight test as of 19 Nov, unconfirmed report is that 168065 has been accepted already and may already be delivered. 5644 168065 #14 5645 168066 #15

The Iranians have been talking up their version of an AMP for the last little while. They had 60 birds as of 1982, and could've revived an old one that was down for a while.

The South Korean order takes the C-130J to 300 total orders. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/12/02/350471/south-korea-buys-four-new-c-130js.html

A few highlights: Celebrating 50 years of Herk operations in Canada KC-130J Harvest Hawk takes on new role Ramstein airmen demonstrate flexibility Lt. Col. Dave Klaus joins Marietta DCMA office as chief of Flight Operations with the C-130J program. C-130 loadmaster talks with Obama on Thanksgiving http://cc-130j.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/PROVEN-Nov-2010.pdf

The Republic of Korea has ordered four C-130J-30 for delivery in 2014. They will most likely be flown by the 251st Tactical Air Support Squadron at Busan-Gimhae AB in Pusan. http://www.codeonemagazine.com/news_item.html?item_id=247

The first MC-130J, #SN 5656 at the end of October.

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/ams/2010_HOC_Presentations.html Monday, October 18, 2010 1010 - LM - Linda Allen - Opening Remarks and C-130 Program Update 1030 - LM - Wayne Roberts - Planning and Executing Air Shows in the C-130J 1100 - LM - Grant Little - C-130/L382 Hercules Maintenance Planning 1130 - LM - Richard Harris - Field Operations Overview 1145 - LM - Terry Gooch - Volcanic Ash 1300 - USCG - Captain John Hardin - Keynote Speaker 1330 - LM - Jim McCall - C-130 L/ESS Program 1400 - Belgian Defence - Belgian Defense C130 Fleet - Lt Peter Herreman 1430 - NAVAIR - Raymond Waldbusser - 50 Years of USN/USMC C-130 Operations 1530 - LM - Bill Russell - C-130 Corrosion Control 1545 - LM - Joe Dephtereos - Composite Trailing Edge Pan Drain Hole Installation 1600 - OGMA - Marco Espanhol - Lean C-130 Maintenance 1615 - Portuguese AF - Capt Frederico Azevedo Lemos - European Maintenance Symposium 1630 - ST Aerospace - Loh Piang Khuen - C-130 Modernization Experience 1645 - LM - John Swearengen - Type II / IV Anti-Icing Fluid Clearance on C-130J Tuesday, October 19, 2010 0830 - Rhode Island ANG - Col Lawrence Gallogly - Keynote Speaker 0900 - USAFR - MSgt Aubrey Robertson - Air Mobility Command RODEO 2011 0915 - Lynden - Ethan Bradford - Hercules Operations & Maintenance Information At Your Fingertips - There’s an App for That! 0930 - Rolls-Royce - Dean Mosser - T56 Desert Operations 0930 - Rolls-Royce - Slim Ketchum - Sudden In-Flight Oil Loss (SINFOL) 0930 - Rolls-Royce - Christopher Culp - Status Update T56-A-15 Series 3.5 Development Program 1030 - Rolls-Royce - Matt Millard - AE 2100D3 Program Overview 1045 - LM - Dennis Champagne - Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation 1100 - Royal New Zealand AF - SQNLDR Paul Cockerton - C130 LEP Challenges and Project Update 1130 - NAVAIR - Notra Lail - 2010 C-130 Air Vehicle Update 1145 - LM - Robert Tipton - Lockheed Martin’s Role in Aerial Refueling Certification 1300 - USMC - Lt Col David Morris - Keynote Speaker 1330 - LM - Tom Lewis - Hercules Operations & Safety Briefing Team (HOSBT) 1330 - LM - Joe Ead - HOSBT - Engineering 1330 - LM - Wayne Roberts - HOSBT - Flight Operations (Pilot) 1330 - LM - Rick James - HOSBT - Flight Operations (Loadmaster) 1330 - LM - Carey Depew - HOSBT- Flight Operations (Systems) 1530 - GPS Source - Brian Paul - Combat Application Group’s Use of GPS Retransmission Aboard C-130 Aircraft 1545 - Honeywell - Tom Henderson - Advances in Weather Radar Technology IntuVue RDR-4000 1600 - 3M Aerospace - Lisa Rice - Erosion Protection 8730HT: Polyurethane Protection Tapes 1615 - Jeppesen - Wesley Smith - Flite Deck Military Electronic Flight Bag 1630 - Aero Precision - Ben Garcia - C-130 Support 1645 - Turkish Aerospace Industries - Mehmet Serol Doganer - Turkish Air Force C-130 Avionics Modernization Program 1700 - Telephonics Corporation - Albert Scalone - C-130 Intercommunication Systems Upgrades 1715 - AkzoNobel Aerospace - Patrick Adams - Meeting the Challenge of Corrosion Resistance Wednesday, October 20, 2010 0830 - Canadian Forces (CF) - Derek Black - Implementation of CF Durability and Major Damage Tolerance Assessment Update 0900 - LM - Stan Taylor / Russell Miller - Modernization of C-130 Design Engineering Parts Listing 0915 - Astronautics Corporation of America - Derek Van Dyke - Modernized Avionics Systems for C-130 Aircraft 0930 - L-3 Communications Display Systems - Joseph Garcia - C-130J Displays and Visualization Update 0945 - Crane Aerospace - Randy Williams - C-130 Wheel Brake System Improvement (WBSI) Mark IV Antiskid Upgrade 1030 - Blue Aerospace - Steve Benz - SFAR 88 Update 1045 - Hamilton Sundstrand - Rob Schechtman - Propeller Modernization Update 1100 - Kellstrom - Armando Boucourt - C-130 Short Pod APU Upgrade Kit 1115 - LM - Del Warman - C-130 Roll-On/Roll-Off Capability 1130 - LM - Jim Wolfe - Advanced Avionics Processing for Special Missions 1145 - ViaSat, Inc. - Jeff Warner - C-130 Broadband Satcom Roll-on/Roll-off Capability 1300 - Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office - Melvin D. Taylor - AIR Cooperative Efforts With Foreign Authorities 1330 - NGRAIN - Arnold van den Hoeven - Transforming Hercules Maintenance Performance Support With Interactive 3D Technology 1345 - Rockwell Collins - Chad Williams - Next Generation Avionics Solutions for Thailand & Others 1400 - Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office - Melvin D. Taylor - Military Commercial Derivative Aircraft 1430 - LM - Christopher Howard / Payman Touliat - C-130J Flight Data Analysis 1445 - LM - Keith Wells - C-130J Data Transfer and Diagnostic System (DTADS) 1530 - Cascade Aerospace - Jamie Johnson -C-130 Regeneration 1600 - Airborne Systems - Todd Cosgrove - Mission Survival: Next Generation SAR/CSAR 1615 - CMC Electronics - Charles Praeger - TACVIEW Portable Mission Display 1630 - Ezekiel IPM - Andy Wing - Electronic Engineering Data for Aerospace Mylars 1645 - AVOX Systems - Chris Miller - 358 Hybrid Full-Face Crew Oxygen Mask 1700 - NASI - Wesley Plattner - Supplemental Rapid Cooling System

I am pretty sure the cost of the software won't exceed the costs of testing which are performed now... Hopefully some flag officer will take it on as a pet project and really push it through.

TV station provided some coverage, with a transcript and video on this page: http://www.ckwstv.com/index.cfm?page=news&id=3678