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Türkiye will buy twelve ex-RAF Super Hercules'

Already rumoured back in July, Türkiye will buy twelve of the fifteen Royal Air Force Super Hercules transport aircraft that have been stored at Cambridge since their withdrawal from use, starting in June 2022.

The aircraft stored consist of two types: the Hercules C4 and Hercules C5. Scramble assesses that the Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı (Turkish Air Force Command) will acquire twelve “stretched fuselage” C-130J-30s, designated by the RAF as Hercules C4. The acquisition of the C-130J-30 makes sense, since the Turkish Air Force already operates the C-130B and C-130E models it is familiar with the aircraft and its logistics. These stretched versions will provide additional tactical transport capacity, their maintenance and logistics costs are relatively low and the total time of flight hours on the airframes is low. Some sources state that one Hercules C5 (C-130J) is part of the deal.

It remains to be seen what the acquisition means for the existing 222 Filo operated fleet of Hercules’ that underwent the locally developed ERCIYES modernisation programme. Under the programme, the avionics modernisation of thirteen C-130Es and six C-130Bs was scheduled by 2nci HIBM.K (2nd Hava İkmal Bakim Merkezi Komutanlığı or Air Supply Maintenance Center Command) at Kayseri-Erkilet. One airframe (former Saudi Air Force 451, serial 65-0451) is stored at Kayseri pending the upgrade, and with this acquisition in mind, it is likely that it will not receive the upgrade and will be cannibalised for spare parts.

Currently stored at Cambrige are the following fifteen Hercules’, twelve of them are now sold to Türkiye:

Hercules C4
ZH865, 382-5408, ex N130JA
ZH866, 382-5414, ex N130JE
ZH867, 382-5416, ex N130JJ
ZH868, 382-5443, ex N130JN
ZH869, 382-5444, ex N130JV
ZH870, 382-5445, ex N73235
ZH871, 382-5446, ex N73238
ZH872, 382-5456, ex N4249Y
ZH874, 382-5458, ex N41030
ZH875, 382-5459, ex N4099R
ZH877, 382-5461, ex N4081M
ZH878, 382-5462, ex N73232
ZH879, 382-5463, ex N4080M

Hercules C5
ZH888, 382-5496, ex N4187
ZH889, 382-5500, ex N4099R
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since the Turkish Air Force already operates the C-130B and C-130E models
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I'm surprised that the Turkish airforce still operates those models especially the C-130B as they are OLD.
 
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The cargo model depicted is just the standard RAF variant?

Any details about the AEW model? What about the flag identity in the fin. Is that the 1928-1994 South African flag?
 
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Lockheed Martin's booth at the upcoming Vietnam Defence Expo 2024 features a huge C-130J model. Noticeably, this camo seems quite unfamiliar to the C-130 family's gallery, meanwhile, from the patterns to the shades of colors, the model's appearance seems virtually the same as the camouflage livery that Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) has applied for its CASA/Airbus C-212 and C-295M, and only lacks the identification marking. Besides this camo, the USAF delegates have also flown a whole USAF C-130J alongside a pair of A-10s to Vietnam for exhibition, marking an unprecedented American engagement in Vietnamese defense affairs.

In fact, we approached enough documentation to confidently confirm that Vietnam is buying 3 C-130J from the United States which will eventually become a historic deal between the two former enemies. VPAF is not exactly a new user of the C-130, since it once operated a small number of ex-South Vietnamese C-130A in the 70s-80s, but this time, the Vietnamese Air Force is buying the series of aircraft that it once fought to, freshly from the enemy that it once dealt with. Inarguably, this is a historic milestone for the two nations. Early information states that the delivery would take place from ~2027, and there are already Vietnamese personnel being deployed abroad for training and preparations required for the upcoming C-130J commission.

Back to the appearance of the exhibited model, it lacks Vietnamese identification marking simply because the deal has not been disclosed yet. However, the camouflage that it sports is already a big enough spoiler that LM is showing to us.

Once again we will definitely see the legendary C-130s flying under a Vietnamese banner, but this time they will fly under a whole new positive context, representing the motivations of peace, harmony, reconciliation, and fair cooperation between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the United States of America.

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P/s: I'm going to the expo as a civ guest this Sunday so unless @Ronny drop another bomb expects some more detailed angles
 
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