Originally Posted by
etudiant
Did not some Marine Corps pilots reduce a new airframe to scrap doing something similar? Iirc, it was a gunship version,
USMC does not operate a gunship version of the Herc. USMC does have the Harvest Hawk weapons kit which they can attach to C-130, V-22 and other airframes, and while this kit does weaponize their tanker/transports, it does not really turn them into a true gunship.
The mishap bird was a USAF bird undergoing testing for high slideslip angles. The pilot exceeded the slideslip angle and the was slow in applying corrections and then put in the the wrong correction. It was not a stunt gone awry.