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A friend of mine at work snapped these two over the North Norfolk coast last week. The second is obviously a U.S. Air Force C-130 but I

Looks like an islander with a huge pimple to me. Possibly a weather mointoring or sub hunting varient?

I kind of thought it was an Islander but who uses them with a great big radar in the nose?

The first one is an Army Air Corps Defender. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54858
Surprised you didn't know that Craig.

I kind of thought it was an Islander but who uses them with a great big radar in the nose?

Might be a test rig. Definitely (well, almost definitely) an Islander...

Second one looks like an EC-130, a kind of multipurpose electronic warfare/airborne battlefield command type of Hercules I believe.

http://www.afnews.af.mil/internal/wallp ... /ec130.jpg

Cheers chaps. I was 99% sure the second was an EC-130 but other than thinking the other may be an Islander of some sort I had no idea at all what it was. I knew I could trust you lot to identify them for me.  :)

The first one is an Army Air Corps Defender. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54858
Surprised you didn't know that Craig.

Me too,

If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

I would completely agree with you on that one, nose looks very muck like an MC-130, but it has no outboard pods (although I'm sure these are removable) and it has those sensor/radar protrusions and that is what makes me think it

it makes sense if the Islander is at Marham.

Being my usual pedantic self I still think it's a BN-2T AEW Defender. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/418114/M/

The Defender is the military variant of the Islander. http://www.aewa.org/Library/defender-info.html

Being my usual pedantic self I still think it's a BN-2T AEW Defender. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/418114/M/

The Defender is the military variant of the Islander. http://www.aewa.org/Library/defender-info.html

I'm sure you are right Doug. In that first link you can just see the old Rolls Royce Spitfire XIV behind the Defender.

If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

Also it has been operating from my local airbase

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