With a wingspan of 132 feet, the C-130 Hercules seemed impossible to land on a flight deck. But in a high-stakes test aboard the USS Forrestal, the U.S. Navy proved the unimaginable was possible.

Carriers at sea typically deploy small planes and fighter jets, but the C-130 Hercules is the largest plane that's landed on an aircraft carrier.

In my mind, the C-130 COD exercises were akin to the CIA and Navy’s efforts to fly the U-2 off of aircraft carriers over the years: successful, but maybe a bit too impractical to be put into ...

The first simultaneous deployment of two Chinese carrier groups beyond the strategically vital First Island Chain took place ...

As Lt. James H. Flatley III had demonstrated when landing his C-130 on an aircraft carrier in the 1960s, these planes don’t need a long, well-maintained airstrip to operate—a significant ...

The C-130 operates worldwide and is capable of carrying just about anything needed into and out of a combat zone — a C-130 once landed on an aircraft carrier, making it the largest plane to do so.

WASHINGTON: The US embassy in Qatar has said that access to a key American military base is now limited as a safety measure, ...

Noah talks to Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Brands, a pilot with the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, about the use of the C-130 transport plane in fighting western wildfires. Brands discusses why the C ...

CAL FIRE's first operational C-130 Hercules appeared in the sky above San Jacinto on Monday, ... California is the first state in the U.S. to own and operate firefighting C-130H aircraft.

The C-130 got its start in the aftermath of the Korean War, with U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Command realizing the force lacked medium cargo transport aircraft. In the modern era, those roots in ...

To Fight China, Put the C-130 Back on Aircraft Carriers. Operating C-130s off of American aircraft carriers in the Pacific could provide a sufficient threat to throw China’s existing combat ...