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Tac36
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RAF Hercules

Post by Tac36 » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:10 pm

Good morning,

Is there any good reason to the retirement off RAF Hercules aircrafts and what's happened to them?

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Nighthawke
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Re: RAF Hercules

Post by Nighthawke » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:23 pm

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.

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Re: RAF Hercules

Post by Tac36 » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:53 pm

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.

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Re: RAF Hercules

Post by Nighthawke » Sun Feb 16, 2025 1:00 pm

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.

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Re: RAF Hercules

Post by IanM » Sun Feb 16, 2025 2:10 pm

Apparently, Turkey intend to buy 12 ex. RAF Herks.

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Tac36
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Re: RAF Hercules

Post by Tac36 » Sun Feb 16, 2025 2:20 pm

They was supposed to be good until 2035

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Re: RAF Hercules

Post by Nighthawke » Sun Feb 16, 2025 2:44 pm

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.

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