Thursday, October 9, 2014

4th C-130 for AAF On Hold

The 4th C-130 scheduled to be deployed to the Afghan Air Force (AAF) is now on hold pending a review by the Department of Defense (DoD) of the AAF's medium-airlift requirement and its ability to fully use the existing C-130s before providing the additional capabilities. An investigation conducted by the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that the utilization rate of the first two C-130s delivered was at 48 percent of their flight-hour capacity. This prompted an evaluation of whether a third (and fourth) C-130 was needed. The potential savings to the U.S. taxpayer of not delivering the 4th C-130 is over $40 million. Read a letter from SIGAR to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on this topic (October 6, 2014).

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