They were originally had options to buy some in the Australian order in the late 90's, they cancelled that
Its probably a good decision, their current ones are pretty much EOL, they have most flight hours of any flying C130's in the world atm. Its not a big a step up in training and parts for them and gives service interoperability with the Australian C130J's
The airframes are from 1965 and 1968, there is also going to be review into australia's J's to see if they will be continued in service after 2025. They might even wind up buying those if AUS decides to a sell them
Last edited by rattman; 11th Jun 2019 at 04:28.