It was doing touch-n-go practice at Moffet Field. There has been a lot of touch-n-go training the past few weeks on all sorts of airfields from some very small rural strips up to major urban airports. Much of it is late at night.
Mission
The Commando II flies clandestine, or low visibility, single or multiship, low-level infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces, by airdrop or airland and air refueling missions for special operations helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft, intruding politically sensitive or hostile territories. The MC-130J primarily flies missions at night to reduce probability of visual acquisition and intercept by airborne threats. Its secondary mission includes the airdrop of leaflets.
It was doing touch-n-go practice at Moffet Field. There has been a lot of touch-n-go training the past few weeks on all sorts of airfields from some very small rural strips up to major urban airports. Much of it is late at night.
From the USAF webhsite:
Lockheed plane circling around lockheed company in Mountain View. Probably doing some experiments and tests.