{"id":5208,"date":"2010-05-11T00:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T08:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2010-05-10T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T05:16:24","slug":"the-next-fighter-aircraft-the-fc-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/the-next-fighter-aircraft-the-fc-130\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Fighter Aircraft: The FC-130"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/05\/marine_tankers_050810w\/\">US Marines are putting Hellfire surface-attack missiles<\/a> on one of their less traditional airframes:<\/p>\n<p>A KC-130 aerial refueling tanker\/transport.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s a fascinating (if not completely new) idea.\u00a0 Over the years ideas have been floated from putting hundreds of air-to-air missiles on the B-52 to turning C-5 and C-17 cargo aircraft into bombers.\u00a0 (The payload of a B-2 is reportedly 40,000lbs.\u00a0 The C-5: 250,000lbs.)\u00a0 What were once innovative flights of fancy by aircraft designers and Air Force operators are now standard fare (ie, the addition of Hellfire missiles to the Predator UAV).<\/p>\n<p>Still, a little caution is warranted.\u00a0 Necessity is often the mother of invention (reference the early AC-119 Gunships in Vietnam).\u00a0 However, boredom and &#8220;mission-envy&#8221; sometimes play a role as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines are putting Hellfire surface-attack missiles on one of their less traditional airframes: A KC-130 aerial refueling tanker\/transport. In fact, it&#8217;s a fascinating (if not completely new) idea.\u00a0 Over the years ideas have been floated from putting hundreds of air-to-air missiles on the B-52 to turning C-5 and C-17 cargo aircraft into bombers.\u00a0 (The payload of a B-2 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[501,500,499,149,352,53,90],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-ac-119","tag-hellfire","tag-kc-130","tag-marines","tag-predator","tag-uav","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}