Lockheed Martin® EC-130 Hercules®, VQ-3 Ironman, Mahogany 1/74 (21\") Scale Model For Sale

Fly with the VQ-3 Ironman in this handcrafted Lockheed Martin EC-130 Model. Each piece is carved from wood and painted to provide a one of kind piece. Our pieces seek to recreate memories of these aircraft.

• Length - 16 inches
• Wingspan - 21 inches
• Made from Mahogany
• US Veteran-Owned Business
• Official Licensed by Lockheed Martin
• The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger

LOCKHEED MARTIN®, C-130 Hercules®, associated emblems and logos, and body designs of vehicles are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Lockheed Martin Corporation in the USA and/or other jurisdictions, used under license by Squadron Nostalgia LLC

TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) is a U.S. military system of survivable communications links designed to be used in nuclear war to maintain communications between the decision makers (the National Command Authority) and the triad of strategic nuclear weapon delivery systems. Its primary mission is to receive, verify and retransmit Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to US strategic forces. It does this by maintaining the ability to communicate on virtually every radio frequency band from very low frequency (VLF) up through super high frequency (SHF) using a variety of modulations, encryptions and networks. This airborne communications capability largely replaced the land based extremely low frequency (ELF) broadcast sites that became vulnerable to nuclear strike.

There are several components to the current TACAMO system. The main part is the airborne portion, the U.S. Navy\'s Strategic Communications Wing One (U.S. Strategic Command) based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma which flies three Fleet Air Reconnaissance squadrons (VQ-3, VQ-4 and VQ-7) equipped with Boeing IDS E-6B Mercury TACAMO aircraft. As well as the main base there is a west coast alert base at Travis AFB, California and an east coast alert base at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.