Watch: Military plane repurposed as aerial firefighter

California is the archetypal authorities to ain and run a C-130 Hercules airtanker aft Congress approved the transportation of national planes to firefighting operations successful December 2023.

he level was retrofitted with a vessel that tin clasp 4,000 gallons (15,000 litres) of occurrence retardant and a strategy to merchandise it.

It is the archetypal of 7 tankers that California are utilizing to combat the expanding menace of wildfires successful the state. California has the biggest aerial firefighting fleet successful the world, adjacent anterior to these caller tankers.