Key point: The KC-130J has a lot of cargo room, so the Marines figured why not use it to rain death upon your enemies? The Harvest Hawk is the result. Dropping bombs out of cargo planes has been a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Dropping bombs out of cargo planes has been a common measure of desperation for under-equipped air forces and opportunistic mercenaries throughout the history of ...

A USMC KC-130J Super Hercules crew conducts low altitude tactics and navigation while air dropping cargo during Exercise ...

Five Marines aboard a KC-130J Hercules and one Marine on an F/A-18 Hornet were killed when both planes went down about 200 miles off the Japanese coast By Jeff Schogol Published Jun 26, 2019 3:10 PM ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is rapidly designing an armament package for its KC-130J refuelers aimed to help fill a gap in close air support in Afghanistan, as the U.S. Air Force’s AC-130 fleet continues ...

The grounding was done out of an abundance of caution. — -- The Marine Corps Reserve has grounded its fleet of 12 KC-130T transport aircraft, the same type of plane that was involved in the ...

Cramped in a small container carried on a KC-130, a group of U.S. Marine Corps officers and enlisted personnel played an important role directing the service's attack and lift helicopters to ensure ...

A KC-130 Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234 refuels a MV-22B Osprey in the air over Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake, Canada, June 17, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Jose Gonzalez Marine ...

The search for missing crew that began after a KC-130J and a Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet crashed Dec. 6 has been called off. (Marine Corps) The search for a Marine Corps KC-130 and its five missing ...

All five were aboard a tanker that collided with a fighter during refueling. The Marine Corps has identified the five Marines killed aboard a KC-130 refueling tanker when it collided with a F/A-18 ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon says Marines used a KC-130 cargo plane to evacuate about 20 Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan, in a move prompted by what the State Department calls a ...

(NEW YORK) — The Marine Corps Reserve has grounded its fleet of 12 KC-130T transport aircraft, the same type of plane that was involved in the deadly July 10 crash in Mississippi that killed 15 ...