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Externally the C-130j will be little different from the prototype Hercules which first flew four decades ago in August 1954. Compared with the C-130e and H, the only obvious differences are the six bladed Dowty propellers and lack of external fuel tanks.
Update — Lockheed C-130J Hercules II
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Lockheed C-130J Hercules Ii
The RAAF has recently received budget approval to acquire 12 new generation C-130J Hercules Ii airlifters. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company’s Vice President for Airlift Programmes, Al Hansen, exclusively briefed Australian Aviation on this latest incarnation of the immortal Hercules.
The Lockheed C-130J Hercules Ii is the most significant and comprehensive update of the venerable Hercules design yet. The privately funded Hercules Ii development programme takes a 1950’s technology aircraft and updates it for the 21st century, providing significant gains in a number of key areas such as operating costs and performance, without the expense of creating an all-new design.
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