The service’s fleet of HC-130Js is the Department of Homeland Security’s largest airlift asset and carries out many Coast Guard missions, including search and rescue, drug and migrant interdiction, cargo and personnel transport, and maritime stewardship.
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In addition to continued Minotaur missionization efforts on new aircraft, the service has plans to complete the block upgrade on all its HC-130J aircraft. The Coast Guard currently has 17 HC-130J aircraft in either operational use or active production. A Block 8.1 upgrade adding advanced capabilities including enhanced inter-communication systems, enhanced approach and landing systems, expanded diagnostics, civil GPS and additional covert lighting will also be completed. The program will outfit CGNR 2014 with Minotaur software and Coast Guard-specific integrated radar, sensors and communication systems in a process called missionization, after which the aircraft will be redesignated as an HC-130J. The aircraft was delivered in its baseline configuration and will be used for component certification testing before it is inducted into the Minotaur mission system suite modification program at 元Harris ISR Systems in Waco, Texas, May 15. The HC-130J is a major upgrade from the legacy C-130’s employed by the USCG since 1959. The Coast Guard accepted its 14th C-130J Super Hercules long range surveillance aircraft from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ Marietta, Georgia, facility April 27, 2020. CGNR 2014 will next be outfitted with Minotaur software as well as Coast Guard-specific integrated radar, sensors and communication systems in a process called missionization. including all-glass cockpit displays and improved navigation equipment a.
The Coast Guard accepts its 14th C-130J from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Marietta, Georgia, on April 27, 2020. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak welcomed the first HC-130J Super Hercules to.
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