- "Oh, I sure as shit hope that wasn't our ride..."
- —Douglas Holiday, after the C-130 crashed.
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The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft built by Lockheed. It is the main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide.
Capable of takeoffs and landings from unprepared runways, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medical evacuation, and cargo transport aircraft. The versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles, including as a gunship, for airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol and aerial firefighting.
Vivendi Timeline[]
The C-130 Hercules is used by F.E.A.R. for Rowdy Betters, as an airborne command center where he briefs the second F.E.A.R. team before they HALO drop in and deploy just inside of the Fairport Quarantine Zone, touching down in the flood canals. One is witnessed going down in F.E.A.R. Extraction Point by the Point Man, Jin Sun-Kwon, and Douglas Holiday. Later, the Point Man comes across its wreckage. The same plane is also seen by the Sergeant, after exiting the Subway in F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
It's unknown that crashed C-130 seen in both Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate belongs to F.E.A.R. or not, because Rowdy Betters is still alive towards the end of these games, since he was not aboard that crashed C-130. The crashed C-130 has "U.S. Air Force" mark on it, this means this C-130 belongs to unknown branch of U.S. Air Force, either shot down by Replica Force or the plane is downed by the influence of Alma Wade.
Monolith Timeline[]
The airplane that crashes just at the beginning of Interval 04 of F.E.A.R. 2 is a civilian two-engine aircraft and not a C-130.
In F.E.A.R. 3, a C-130 is stationed at the Port Authority Airport, in Armacham's attempt to extract Michael Becket from Fairport. The C-130 in this game is modeled after the C-130J-30 variant, which has extended fuselage. Although it still uses four-bladed turboprop engines, which real life C-130J-30 uses eight-bladed ones.
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