Good morning,
Is there any good reason to the retirement off RAF Hercules aircrafts and what's happened to them?
Regards.
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RAF Hercules
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Nighthawke
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Re: RAF Hercules
Replaced by the A.400M Atlas - whether a good reason is open for interpretation and has been debated on this forum in the past so probably best not resurrect that line. Of the older versions (C.1/C.3) either scrapped or sold on and the newer C-130J (C.4/C.5) either sold on or currently stored at Cambridge.
Re: RAF Hercules
It would be interesting to no if they have been sold on. Also I think we need them more than ever to work along the a400.
Regards
Regards
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Nighthawke
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Re: RAF Hercules
Yes as I said - some have been sold and and more in storage may follow. Either way they are not coming back into RAF service.
Re: RAF Hercules
Apparently, Turkey intend to buy 12 ex. RAF Herks.
Ian
Ian
Re: RAF Hercules
They was supposed to be good until 2035
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Nighthawke
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Re: RAF Hercules
And they may well be for their current or future forces but the MoD in their wisdom decided to retire them. As I said earlier this has been debated several times on here and they are still retiredM from RAF service and will remain so.