AFA NEWS: Tests Show Converting C-130s into Amphibious Aircraft ‘Viable’
9/21/2022
By Stew Magnuson
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — About 71 percent of the world’s surface is covered in water, and Air Force Special Operations Command wants the ability to land aircraft on all of it.
Recent tests have shown that the plan to give MC-130Js — the AFSOC version of the Lockheed Martin-built airlifter — amphibious capabilities are “going to be operationally viable for us,” AFSOC Commander Gen. James Slife said Sept. 20.
Through digital engineering and wave tank tests, the command has come up with a design for a kit that can be added to the airlifters in the field and give them the capability to take off and land on water, Slife told reporters at the Air and Space Forces Association annual conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
“The wave tank testing that we've done so far indicates that the design is performing just the way we anticipated it would,” he said.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/9/21/tests-show-converting-c-130s-into-amphibious-aircraft-viable 
