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World Aviation Defense & Security News - United States
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Lockheed delivers additional MC-130J Commando II to the AFSOC
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A U.S. Air Force crew accepted delivery of an MC-130J Commando II at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta on Aug. 11. This MC-130J Commando II multimission combat transport/special operations tanker is assigned to the US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) at Hurlburt Field, Florida.
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 A Lockheed's MC-130J Commando II multimission transport/tanker aircraft(Credit: Lockheed Martin) |
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As it replaces legacy MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft, the MC-130J provides AFSOC with a modern aircraft capable of worldwide employment for missions requiring clandestine single- or multi-ship, low-level aerial refueling of special operation force vertical and tilt-rotor aircraft; and/or infiltration, resupply and exfiltration by airdrop or landing on remote airfields.
The MC-130J is the first C-130 specifically built for special operations, making it lighter and more efficient. A total of 37 MC-130J aircraft are programmed to replace all other MC-130 variants by the end of fiscal year 2017. Production of the first MC-130J aircraft, AF Ser. No. 09-6207, was started at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Marietta, Georgia, on October 5, 2009 and undertook its initial test flight on 22 April 2011. |
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