{"id":146934,"date":"2024-11-04T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-lc-130-take-off-rockets-land-skis\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:00:13","slug":"wild-why-the-us-air-force-lc-130-takes-off-with-rockets-lands-on-skis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=146934","title":{"rendered":"Wild: Why The US Air Force LC-130 Takes Off With Rockets &amp; Lands On Skis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028872\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/key-features-that-make-lockheed-martin-c-130-hercules-workhors\/\" >C-130 Hercules family of tactical airlifters is the versatile workhorse of the United States military<\/a><\/span> (along with many of the United States&#8217; allied militaries). The tactical airlifter is frequently the backbone of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> airborne logistics operations. The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255371\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-130\/\"  >C-130<\/a><\/span> will continue to be a cornerstone for many years as older Hercules are replaced by the new Super Hercules. The Hercules is capable of many hat-tricks, including rocket-assisted take-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hercules has many tricks, one of which is external rocket pods, which enable it to get off the snow while operating on the poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6067,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-130","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146935,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146934\/revisions\/146935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}