Here are pictures of Nigeria Air Force (NAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft which is used to transport troops and military supplies to battle zones in the north and north-east as part of efforts to contain the Boko Haram insurgency.
The C-130 fleet is more than three decades old and by 2009 only one example was flying. Nigeria originally received six C-130s three decades ago and another three C-130H-30s a decade later, but one C-130 crashed on September 29, 1992, killing at least 160. In 2014, the NAF recommissioned a refurbished Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport aircraft back into service…
