Is the C-130 all that high tech ?
No but the Iranian regime and the MSM are bound to spin this the wrong way if we let them. Our Homeland Security Department did a great job preventing military hardware from going to Iran in 2003. I'd like all of us to recognize them in the context of sanctions enforcement. I'd also like us all to recognize the difference between the Iranian leadership and the people at risk on that plane today.
Not terribly high-tech, but any four-engined turboprop is a pretty complex piece of machinery.
And, if the article is right in referring to the Iranian C-130s as C-130As, those things are OLD. The Herc has been around for fifty-one years. You know the Iranian ones are at least twenty-six years old (as they would have been delivered prior to the 1979 revolution), probably much older than that. Granted, there are thousands of planes that old flying safely around the world, but those have easy access to spare parts. The Iranians would have to get spares for their Hercs either through other countries, or through subterfuge like this.
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