{"id":9272,"date":"2011-02-17T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2011-02-14T02:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:14:01","slug":"akc-130-deployed-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/akc-130-deployed-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"AKC-130 Deployed to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marine Corps&#8217; newest attack aircraft, its armed <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/the-next-fighter-aircraft-the-fc-130\/\">KC-130J tanker\/airlift aircraft<\/a>, is reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/01\/marine-armed-hercules-in-the-fight-012911w\/\">flying sorties over Afghanistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [KC-130] is the first of three airplanes with San Diego-based Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 to be fitted with the Harvest Hawk kit. The kit, designed as a roll-on\/roll-off weapon system, includes a pod attached to the left wing that can carry four Hellfire missiles, <!--more-->a rear-ramp launcher for 10 Griffin precision-guided missiles and a fire-control console the aircrew uses to track and hit targets. Aircrews can even share live video with ground units. Officials would also like to add a 30mm cannon to the mix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Air Force currently has a small quantity of AC-130s, which primarily use permanently mounted side-firing cannons for close air support.\u00a0 There are very few\u00a0AC-130s while the demand for their services is high, making them one of the highest tempo airframes in the Air Force.\u00a0 Perhaps the Marines&#8217; innovation will not only improve their &#8220;self-sufficiency,&#8221; as the Marines like to do, but also lighten the load on Air Force assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marine Corps&#8217; newest attack aircraft, its armed KC-130J tanker\/airlift aircraft, is reportedly flying sorties over Afghanistan: The [KC-130] is the first of three airplanes with San Diego-based Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 to be fitted with the Harvest Hawk kit. The kit, designed as a roll-on\/roll-off weapon system, includes a pod attached to the left wing that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,5285,1408,1407,500,499,149,2],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-griffin","tag-harvest-hawk","tag-hellfire","tag-kc-130","tag-marines","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}