Lockheed Martin Touts Lower-cost, Convertible C-130Js
Lockheed Martin is deleting some features from the C-130J to reduce cost, but they could be restored later in the ‘X-pandable’ version. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
Lockheed Martin is deleting some features from the C-130J to reduce cost, but they could be restored later in the ‘X-pandable’ version. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin has provided more details on the lower-cost C-130XJ that it revealed earlier this year, along with the proposed SC-130J Sea Herc for maritime missions. The company has delivered 252 of the 320 C-130Js on order by 15 countries, and is reducing the production rate to 30 per year from last year’s peak of 36.