AUS Air Force (USAF)crew, airborne within minutes of the mission order arriving at the alert shack, flies its Lockheed Martin HC-130J • Combat King II into the night sky. The HC-130J is the USAF's only fixed-wing personnel recovery aircraft, specifically designed for combat search and rescue (CSAR) missions. It heads towards the reported location of survivors., down in hostile territory. With its crew performing low-level contour flying, using night vision goggles (NVGs), the HC-130J navigates through mountainous terrain, using ridge lines for masking to stay below enemy radar.
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