Indonesia Upgrading Aging Hercules

Credit: C130-B: USAF
KUALA LUMPUR — Indonesia is retrofitting and upgrading five aging Lockheed Martin C-130B Hercules transport aircraft that have been in service since the 1960s. The program has begun with the challenge of taking a Hercules that had been left derelict and restoring it to airworthy condition. Work on...
Marhalim Abas

Marhalim Abas, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, covers Southeast Asian defense. He has worked as a journalist specializing in Southeast Asia defense and security since 1994, initially with the New Straits Times newspaper.

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