{"id":147619,"date":"2024-11-07T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-hc-130j-combat-king-ii\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T14:00:14","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-us-air-forces-hc-130j-combat-king-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=147619","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About The US Air Force&#8217;s HC-130J Combat King II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029243\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-4-c-130-variants-used-by-us-air-force\/\" >the many C-130 Hercules variants<\/a><\/span> is the HC-130J Combat King II (which is the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in             <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> inventory). Additionally, the Coast Guard operates a similar HC-130J variant. 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> Hercules was built as an Air Force tactical airlifter, and today, it is a logistical workhorse of the United States military. The Hercules has seen many adaptations and variations, from         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029582\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/roles-usaf-ec-130h-compass-call-electronic-warfare\/\" >electronic warfare (as with the EC-130 Compass Call)<\/a><\/span> to gunships (as with the AC-130 Ghostrider).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HC-130J Combat King II provides a long-range combat search and rescue mission in the Air Force and extends helicopter ranges.<\/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":[396,6067,627,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-130","category-lockheed-martin","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\/147619","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=147619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147620,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147619\/revisions\/147620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}