U.S. Marines Eye Late Summer Fielding of Armed KC-130J

Credit: USMC CPL. JUSTIN L. WAINSCOTT
As the U.S. Marine Corps moves ahead to field a gunship kit for its KC-130J refuelers, the Air Force’s strategy for its own gunship appears to have stumbled. Despite earlier efforts from Air Force Special Operations Command (Afsoc) to begin work on a C-27J gunship variant, dubbed the “Stinger II,”...

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