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Quick question. Do the Saudis have any grey coloured herks or are they all desert camo?

Many thanks, james.

Pretty sure they're all desert camo...

-Dazza

Just asking as I saw one leaving taif today that was grey but with a green badge on the tail. Pakistani maybe?

Sounds Libyan to me..

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Could have been. Wish I had got a better look at it?

So do i

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We only ever see a tiny fraction of the Saudi C-130s in the UK, and a lot of the other RSAF fleets are also going grey, so there's a good chance the C-130 fleet is doing the same.

TonyO wrote:We only ever see a tiny fraction of the Saudi C-130s in the UK, and a lot of the other RSAF fleets are also going grey, so there's a good chance the C-130 fleet is doing the same.

No grey RSAF Herks AFAIK, and only one other type in the fleet has/is going grey (that i can think of!)

Tornados, Hawks...that's two fleets!

TonyO wrote:Tornados, Hawks...that's two fleets!

Not really, are the current Hawks going grey (as in a scheme change)? The new ones may be when delivered, but i thought we were referring to current aircraft 'going grey' (ie. the current Herks)? Any new J-model Herks may be delivered grey, but just like the new Hawks, they will always have been grey, not gone grey! Tornado IDS are the only fleet 'going grey', hardly lots.

We sometimes had HZ 129 and similar in at Warton.

http://libhomeradar.org/aircraft/HZ-129.html Credits to the photographer.

Cheers for all the info guys. Plenty of f16 action here though.

Will most likely be Pakistani then if there's plenty of F-16 action

Don't think Pakistan has any here.

Pretty sure that all the Grey Pakistani C- 130's have low viz markings.

Going back to this subject, there is a picture of the first RSAF legacy C-130 now painted in grey camo, with C-130H 465.
This now makes them the second of the existing fleets to change their scheme from desert camo to grey, after to Tornado IDS.

Hi,

Saudi Arabia does operate grey herks, see the link below:

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/p ... rabia.html

Cheers

The KC-130J's were only delivered about 3 weeks ago, this thread stems from August last year.

Sharpy39 wrote:Saudi Arabia does operate grey herks...

Let me try wording it another way... the RSAF have now started re-painting their old Herks grey. First one pictured

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