As of 2024, the KC-130 has seven models with a total of 180 aircraft produced. Aside from the KC-130s owned and operated by the U.S. Marine Corps, 18 different countries also own and operate the ...

The HAAR system was developed to extend the operational range of helicopters, enabling them to conduct operations in remote ...

A C-130J Super Hercules over the Hughes Fire on Jan. 22, 2025. (California Air National Guard/TMX) Once a load is discharged from a MAFFS-equipped aircraft, and the aircraft lands at a tanker base ...

SINGAPORE - A Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) aircraft departed for Jordan on Feb 12 to deliver some nine tonnes of ...

Aircraft from Sweden, Germany and Brazil, besides those from the US and Russia, are participating in the Aero India 2025 show ...

You know, some of these winds are just too much that you just can’t fight fire from the air. So these fires are definitely unique,” said Joel Kerley, the president and CEO of 10 Tanker.

Two large air tankers from New South Wales have arrived in Tasmania to bolster firefighting efforts on the West Coast. The ...

This would be a significant design difference from current tankers. In August 2023, the Air Force selected JetZero to partner with Northrup Grumman to develop a prototype to test the BWB design. This ...

MAFFS are the U.S. Forest Service’s portable fire-retardant delivery systems. They can be inserted into military C-130 aircraft without major structural modifications to convert them into air tankers ...