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The Hercules C-130 aircraft descended to an altitude of 150 feet, releasing 3,000 gallons of water over a grassy landscape. The water drop took place near the Boise Airport’s third runway, south of ...

U.S. Northern Command has activated military cargo planes equipped to drop retardant as an intensifying peak wildfire season stretches the U.S. Forest Service air tanker fleet. Two C-130 Hercules ...

The Pentagon deployed modified C-130 aircraft to aid in the fight against the Los Angeles wildfires. The wildfires spread rapidly due to strong winds and dry conditions, scorching over 30,000 acres.

Equipped with the MAFFS II system, Leonardo’s C-27J Spartan NG emerges as a versatile multi-mission platform which can deliver precision water/fire retardant drops while complementing the trusted ...

MAFFS, or Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems, transforms a military transport into an aerial firefighter. In an interview ...

The versatile C-27J cargo aircraft will be able to perform this mission thanks to the roll-on/roll off MAFFS system. Leonardo unveiled on its website a new firefighting configuration that will further ...