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 ...

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 largest plane to ever land on an aircraft carrier was the C-130 Hercules, a cargo plane primarily used by the United States Air Force (USAF). However, this massive plane almost never lands on ...

Although the C-130 as a carrier cargo transport never came to pass, it still holds the record to this day for the largest aircraft ever to perform flight operations from a carrier. Related Story ...

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 ...

The C-130 can be rapidly reconfigured for the various types of cargo such as palletized equipment, ... 2 New Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers Will Be Named After Former Presidents Bill Clinton, ...

The Pentagon sent C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to fight the LA fires. The water bombers drop nearly 14 tons of fire retardant in under five seconds.

The ongoing analysis of the damage inflicted upon by the Indian Air Force on Pakistan Air Force stated that 6 PAF fighter jets, two high-value aircraft, over 10 UCAVs, one C-130 transport aircraft ...

Satellite images reveal a significant reduction of US military aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, amid rising ...

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 ...