Last year the RNZAF announced it had agreed a price of nearly USD 1 billion (NZD 1.5 bn) for 5 C-130J-30s plus a Sim and 'supporting infrastructure" for delivery 2024-25. Just saying ...
I presume a number of sims, a rear cabin trainer and other rigs will become surplus. Have any C.4s, beyond the one returned in August last year, received the replacement centre wingbox?
On a note of levity. The OSD gives the chance to plan a formation farewell tour to former bases. May be in the light of Boris's East of Suez ambitions that could include Changi via Akrotiri rather than the extended circuit of Brize Norton, Lyneham, Fairford, Thorney Island, Farnborough, Cambridge(?), Brize Norton.
