Lockheed EC-130

The Lockheed EC-130 series comprises several slightly different versions of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules operated by the United States Air Force until 2026 and, until the 1990s, by the United States Navy. The EC-130E Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center was based on the C-130E platform and gave air and ground commanders a tactical airborne command post in low air threat environments; those aircraft were retired in 2002 and the mission moved to the E-8 JSTARS and E-3 AWACS fleets. The EC-130E Commando Solo was a psychological operations aircraft that entered service in 1978 as the Coronet Solo with Tactical Air Command, was renamed Volant Solo in 1983 and Commando Solo in 1990, and was replaced from 2003 by EC-130J Commando Solo III aircraft built by Lockheed Martin. It broadcast during Operation Just Cause in 1989 and Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti in 1994.