The Bangladesh Air Force has been supplemented by two medium-sized military transport aircraft Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules from the Royal British Air Force.
Purchased transport workers under the contract must be equipped with fast-mounted modules for medical evacuation.
At the moment, four old Lockheed C-130В Hercules aircraft received from storage by the US Air Force in 2001 are serving in the Bangladesh Air Force.
Until recently, there were ten C-130J and 14 C-130J-30 airplanes with an extended fuselage on the balance of the British Air Force. In 2015, the British government decided to keep the C-14J-130 aircraft in operation and C-30J to write off. As a result, all ten British C-130J are for sale. Of these, two acquired Bangladesh, two Bahrain and one United States. The rest are interested in France and Sri Lanka.
The C-130J-30 Super Hercules military transport aircraft is a further upgrade of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. Development began in the 1991 year, the first flight of the updated Hercules in the 1996 year. The main differences between C-130J and its predecessors are the replacement of engines with more powerful Allison AЕ21100-3 with six blades propellers and in installing the latest avionics. Cruising speed C-130J increased by 21%, and the range with full load reached 4087 km. Takeoff runoff length decreased by one third.
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