After the failure of Operation Eagle Claw to free a group of 53 American hostages held inside Iran, the U.S. military started looking for outside-the-box solutions for the ongoing crisis… And one seemed to arrive in the form of a rocket-propelled C-130 Hercules. This seemingly-insane concept went from concept to reality in just over three weeks, and had the real potential to work, had the crisis not ended first by other means. Let’s talk about Operation Credible Sport, and how the lineage of this insane concept lives on in today’s combat aircraft.
