using transports as bombers?

[Apache6]

The USMC has recently developed a package that allows them to employ KC-130s as a "poor mans" version of the AC-130. Look up the Harvest Hawk module. It includes ISR systems and the ability to fire missiles and rockets (both hellfire and 2.75 rockets.

[The Dark]

Originally Posted by Apache6

The USMC has recently developed a package that allows them to employ KC-130s as a "poor mans" version of the AC-130. Look up the Harvest Hawk module. It includes ISR systems and the ability to fire missiles and rockets (both hellfire and 2.75 rockets.

They're using Hellfires and Griffins. The Harvest HAWK is an interesting package of systems. It mounts a quad Hellfire launcher from an AH-1 Cobra under the left wing, the Target Sight Sensor from an AH-1Z Cobra in an empty fuel tank under the left wing, the fire control system from an SH-60 Seahawk in the cargo bay, and a Griffin missile launcher in the left paratroop door with a "wine rack" of ten reloads (it originally had a 10-tube "Gunslinger" launcher on the rear ramp, but that required depressurizing the aircraft and made it inconvenient to use the Griffins). The modifications cost around $10 million per kit.