This USAF Special Operations C-130 lands at an austere airstrip and a huge HIMARS Rocket Launcher rolls off its ramp. The C-130 takes back off and the rockets start flying. The way America’s air ...

The HIMARS launcher is carried in a C-130 cargo aircraft (maximum payload: 21 tons), while the two other C-130s carry personnel, communications support and more munitions.

The C-130 is the world's most prolific cargo hauler and it's been adapted to do pretty much everything imaginable with one exception: operating on water. Yet some of the folks at Lockheed wanted ...

For the exercise, Marines with 5/11 loaded two HIMARS systems onto two KC-130 aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station, Camp Pendleton, California, and flew to Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.

HIMARS is a vehicle-mounted light rocket launcher system that both the Marine Corps and Army use. Primarily used from land, it can be carried in a C-130 Hercules aircraft and can fire M270 ...

"What this capability allows is proofing out the concept of allowing a system like the HIMARS to fly on a C-130 or a C-17 and come in and execute a target set and load back up and fly back to home ...

The 12 ton truck can fit into a C-130 transport, unlike the 22 ton tracked MLRS vehicle. Each pod carries six 208 kg GMLRS missiles, one 1.7 ATACMS or two 900 kg PrSM (Precision Strike) missiles.

HIMARS is C-130 transportable and can be deployed into areas previously inaccessible to heavier launchers. It also incorporates the self-loading, ...

The HIMARS rocket system is a powerful and convenient piece of military tech, ... it had to be transportable on the C-130 Hercules cargo plane, one of the oldest aircraft still in service today.

A U.S. Air Force loadmaster offloads a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, in Liepaja, Latvia, on Sept. 26, 2022. The mobile rocket systems are being flown to the Arctic, the Baltics ...