C-130J Hercules

Hercules
Faction	USMC U.S. Army ION
Type	Cargo Plane
Seats	26 seats: 1× Pilot 1× Co-Pilot 24× Passengers
Item capacity	Max: 3× Weapons 20× Magazines
Top speed	~ 533 km/h
Fuel capacity	1000 fuel units
Primary armament	None
Secondary armament	Defensive: 120× Countermeasures (Chaff/Flare)
Variants	None
Games

The C-130J Hercules is a fixed-wing cargo plane used by both the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army, as well as in limited numbers with ION PMC contractors in ArmA 2.

Overview

• Roles:
  • Troop transport
  • Cargo transport

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The C-130J "Super Hercules" is an American tactical airlifter. This four-engine turbo-prop military transport aircraft is capable of transporting up to 92 passengers or up to 33 tons of cargo. The C-130J with a range of more that 5.000 km and maximum speed of 671 kph is considered to be most important transport aircraft worldwide. Armoury Description

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Design

Designed to replace the outdated C-130E, the C-130J is the latest model in the Hercules family of turboprop-based transport planes. It has an enlarged fuselage, can climb to higher altitudes, flies at a greater cruise speed, and requires less runway distances to take off and land.

Features
As the workhorse of the U.S. military's airlift fleet, the C-130J is designed specifically to transport troops and equipment into a combat zone via paradrop or runways. It has the greatest passenger capacity out of all fixed-wing aircraft in ArmA 2, possessing one additional seat compared to the USMC's own Osprey V/STOL, and can paradrop two full-sized Marine or three Army squads into battle.

Mobility
The C-130J flies faster than the Osprey, though this naturally comes at the cost of not possessing V/STOL capability. As such, it relies heavily on flat runways since it cannot switch to vertical flight and is strictly limited to conventional take offs and landings.

Drawbacks
Just like the Osprey, the C-130J is completely unarmed and only has access to defensive countermeasures. It cannot defend itself or its passengers from ground fire; mobile anti-aircraft vehicles and even helicopter gunships can shoot down the C-130J with relative impunity.

Crew Capacity
The C-130J allows for a crew of two that consists of just the pilot and a co-pilot. Both sit in tandem seats in the cockpit. It is able to transport up to twenty-five passengers in its cargo compartment, though it should be noted that the co-pilot is considered as the twenty-fifth passenger.

Protection

The C-130J has a base armour value of 70.

LEGEND
Green = Hull

Hull

The C-130J's hull can only withstand 70 points of damage. Depletion of the hull's integrity will instantly result in a total loss.

Avionics

MAWS

The C-130J has an integrated Missile Approach Warning System. It will alert the pilot whenever there are missiles in mid-flight that are homing in towards the plane.

RWR

The C-130J possesses a Radar Warning Receiver that will warn the pilot whenever they are being locked-onto by radar-based targeting systems.

IWR

The C-130J lacks an Infrared Warning Receiver. The pilot will not be alerted if they are being targeted by infrared-based weapon systems.

LWR

The C-130J is fitted with a Laser Warning Receiver. The pilot will be warned if they are being locked onto by a laser-based targeting system.

Trivia

In reality, neither the U.S. Marine Corps nor the U.S. Army operate the C-130J. The Marines only utilise the "KC-130J" model which is an aerial tanker optimised for in-flight refuelling, while the Army relies on the U.S. Air Force for tactical/strategic airlift. The C-130J is shown being capable of airdropping supply crates in the PMC DLC-exclusive showcase mission Provision. This is a completely scripted sequence however, as the C-130J cannot carry or paradrop objects outside of the mission without resorting to scripts. It is also furnished with a unique tan/brownish colour scheme which can't be used on regular C-130Js outside of the showcase without scripting commands or a custom addon. Prior to Patch 1.07, human-controlled C-130Js had a high chance of exploding whenever the pilot attempted to take off regardless of whether they were on a paved runway or rough airstrip (this was especially noticeable at the Krasnostav airstrip on the Chernarus terrain). Despite being fixed by Patch 1.07, the standalone version of Operation Arrowhead would break the C-130J's take off behaviour again. This would only be corrected after Patch 1.52 for OA was released. Until the release of the latest Steam version patches, the C-130J did not have access to defensive countermeasures. The C-130J makes a minor reappearance in ArmA 3, albeit only as a static wreckage of the ArmA 2 C-130J model that can be placed in the editor (where it is now called the C-192 Samson). Whether it was planned to be added to ArmA 3 at some point during its development phase or was merely another placeholder designed to test the fixed-wing flight model like the F-35F/F-38 is not known. Aside from the DC-3 that was added with the release of the Queen's Gambit expansion pack for Armed Assault, the C-130J to date remains as the only conventional, non-VTOL capable, fixed-wing cargo plane that is able to transport more than fifteen passengers in the entire series.

Gallery

Unique ION-operated C-130J in the Provision showcase.

External links

• Wikipedia: Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules

See also

Aircraft of comparable role and configuration

• V-44X Blackfish (NATO successor, ArmA 3: Apex only)

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Wheeled	SUV (Armored SUV)
Tracked	M113
Rotor-wing	Ka-60 • Ka-137
Fixed-wing	C-130J Hercules
(Parenthesis) denote variants. Operation Arrowhead | Private Military Company