Christened as the “Speed Agile” Lockheed Martin’s new military transport aircraft is slated to take over from the C-130 Hercules sometime around 2020.
A radical new aircraft design has led to the creation of a fast, agile and easy-to-fly aircraft with the capability to operate from short, improvised airfields even while carrying larger and heavier payloads than the current generation of cargo aircraft. Boeing and Northrop Grumman are reportedly also working on Speed Agile concepts of their own.