When “lightning within five” is announced on an U.S. airbase, personnel are instructed to seek immediate shelter. Lightnings don’t down planes, at least not directly… Taken in 2006 at Duke Field, the ...

DUKE FIELD — A reflective Ron Guidry leaned against the interior wall in the cockpit of a Combat Talon I aircraft. The plane the retired Air Force colonel was crouching in — the same plane he’d flown ...

DUKE FIELD, Fla. -- The Air Force's last four MC-130E Combat Talon I's spread their wings for a final mission from their home at Duke Field on April 15. The Talons will be officially retired in a ...

From left, an MC-130J Commando II and an MC-130P Combat Shadow both from the 17th Special Operations Squadron along with an MC-130H Combat Talon II from the 1st Special Operations Squadron conduct a ...

DRS C3 & Aviation Company, Gaithersburg, Maryland, is being awarded a $26,028,869 firm-fixed-price contract for repair service applicable to the Combat Talon II Depot Repair Program for the APQ-170 ...

HURLBURT FIELD — For Lt. Col. Shane Muscato, it was fitting that rain began to fall during Tuesday morning's preparations for the final flight of the MC-130H "Combat Talon II" carrying tail number ...

The U.S. Air Force plans to convert 10 C130s into special operations MC-130H Combat Talon II-like aircraft that are used to insert elite combat units and refuel special ops helicopters. The upgrade ...