Orlando, Florida | The RAAF is set to double the size of its iconic Hercules cargo aircraft fleet by buying 24 new planes after US officials approved a proposal worth up to $10 billion.

Since late 1954, the Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been an iconic workhorse for many air forces around the world and probably ...

The Defence Department has confirmed that an RAAF Hercules was hit by small arms fire and a United States civilian contractor was killed. Prime Minister John Howard says he is relieved that no ...

The RAAF has launched an investigation. Similar RAAF C-130J Hercules aircraft have been used to launch self locating data marker buoys in the southern Indian Ocean as part of the Australian ...

Working together with industry, the Royal Australian Air Force, or RAAF, has installed a wideband ... upgrades to the Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules airlifter, improving connectivity ...

IT was the last flight of the RAAF’s work horse the C-130H Hercules at Richmond Airforce Base, and our journalist was just sick about it. The man next to me is also being persistently ill into ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. At least three RAAF Hercules aircraft will bring survivors of the Bali nightclub explosion back to Australia for medical treatment ...

Flight tracking websites recorded an RAAF Hercules aircraft heading from a military base in the Middle East towards Afghanistan just after midnight Canberra time. It briefly reappeared on flight ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A RAAF Hercules C-130 aircraft delivered almost seven tonnes of urgently-needed medical supplies to Baghdad hospitals as Australia ...

AFTER almost 250,000 hours in theatres stretching from Antarctica to Cambodia, the venerable Hercules C-130H is being farewelled with a blaze of colour. The RAAF workhorse is due to retire at the ...

This year also marks the 10th anniversary of continuous RAAF Hercules operations to the Middle East, making it the longest ever overseas deployment to have been conducted by the RAAF.