Air Force Reserve Command’s 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell AFB, Ala., got its first revamped C-130 Hercules last week, and the Montgomery Advertiser reports that the unit considers the $10 million upgrade “a bargain.” The “new” C-130 is part of the Air Force’s planned C-130 avionics modernization program, which currently is under review for breaching the Nunn-McCurdy threshold. Air Force officials expect to decide a way forward for the program this month.
The U.S. military conducted a new series of airstrikes on Iran June 26, a day after Tehran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The twin attacks presented a fresh test for a tenuous ceasefire between the two countries.