The C-130 features a loading ramp and door in the tail that ... The C-130 can be rapidly reconfigured for the various types of cargo such as palletized equipment, floor-loaded material, airdrop ...

The C-130 cargo plane was first designed in 1951. More than seven decades later, one of the plane's latest models, the MC-130J, is being fitted with a new weapons system that is changing how the ...

(ref) Propellers also give the C-130 an edge in the kind of low-speed, low-altitude flying needed for precise airdrop ...