Additionally, the U.S. Air Force Reserve out of Petersen Space Force Base sent a C-130 Hercules ... Palisades fire along the coast. The plane features a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System ...

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Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying missions over the wildfires in Southern California that started earlier this month. California Air National ...

John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System ... into military C-130 aircraft without major ...

When deployed as a firefighting aircraft, the C-130 can be equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) unit to support other air tankers in aerial suppression. The MAFFS units ...

Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why they can't fly in certain conditions.

Two large air tankers from New South Wales have arrived in Tasmania to bolster firefighting efforts on the West Coast. The ...

where aircraft like the S-2T tanker can be refilled on the ground within minutes. Cal Fire also has seven new airtankers that were put into service in 2024 called the C-130 Hercules, which each ...