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Bundesheer Has No Flightable Hercules to stranded...

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Hercules aircraft are currently out of the question for stranded Austrians. Chancellor Stocker does not expect any bottlenecks in energy supply for the time being. On Wednesday, he will call the National...

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Thousands of Austrians are currently struggling for opportunities to leave the Middle East. Due to the war, there is little going on these days, the airspace is blocked for civilian passengers. The federal army is also bound: on the one hand, because of the barrier, on the other hand, because none of our Hercules transport machines is operational. It would without doubt be Austria's largest evacuation mission since the global Corona lockdown in …

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Hercules aircraft are currently out of the question for stranded Austrians. Chancellor Stocker does not expect any bottlenecks in energy supply for the time being. On Wednesday, he will call the National...

·Vienna, Austria
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17,700 Austrians are stuck in the Middle East, but not a single transport machine of the Federal Army is ready for use. Now buses are to be organized instead. This post Federal Army Debacle No operational aircraft: Austria cannot evacuate stranded citizens has been published on Young Freedom.

Of the two Hercules aircraft of the Bundesheer, none of the transport aircraft is currently available for the recovery of Austrians in the Middle East. A political dispute has then erupted.

Also 17,700 Austrians are currently stuck in the war-affected region of the Middle East. While other states are seeking coordinated evacuations, the Austrian federal government seems remarkably unprepared – and even unable to act. Particularly explosive: The federal army cannot set up an air bridge because neither of the two Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport machines is ready for use.The contribution of Austria's federal government has no rescue…

The Bundesheer currently has only two Hercules machines. One is being serviced, the second is for technical reasons.

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Die Presse broke the news in Vienna, Austria on Monday, March 2, 2026.
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