Elected lawmakers in Washington are calling on the US Air Force to recapitalise the service’s fleet of ageing Lockheed Martin LC-130H Skibird polar transports. The unique aircraft is equipped with ...

Aug. 2 (UPI) --The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing is training with ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules cargo planes at Raven Camp, Greenland, for landing operations in remote snow and ice ...

Standing in front of a decades-old LC-130H cargo plane at the Stratton Air National Guard base in Glenville on Monday, U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Charles Schumer called for $290 million in defense ...

NUNAVUT, Canada — Thirty-seven U.S. and Canadian soldiers were tactically inserted by way of an LC-130 Hercules on Arctic Ocean ice just east of Little Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada, during ...

A team of three National Guard airmen, each from a different state, put their heads together at the bottom of the world to rescue a military cargo plane that became stranded in Antarctica, officials ...

Not that present in daily news, the military hardware designed to operate in harsh conditions such as in snow and ice sure come in the form of impressive machines. One needs to look no further than ...

An LC-130 Hercules “ski-bird” recently flew a heart attack victim from Antarctica to New Zealand for medical treatment, Pacific Air Forces announced this week. A civilian logistics specialist suffered ...

The Air National Guard's LC-130 planes carry heavy loads to the south pole and other National Science Foundation bases in Antarctica, plus the high, cold summit of the Greenland ice cap. PM got to tag ...

An LC-130 "Skibird" assigned to the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing between missions at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, the National Science Foundation research center in Antarctica on ...

Maureen Baillargeon Aumand presents an excellent look at our government's use of drones in her commentary ("Drone strikes reveal a lost moral compass," Nov. 17). The ever-increasing number of drone ...

The C-130 transport, now built by Lockheed Martin, has been in use since 1956 and has Rolls-Royce engines. The versatile aircraft can be used to transport medical patients, resupply Antarctic missions ...