Take a look at the workhorse C-130 cargo plane that the US Air Force is reinventing to fight like a bomber

• The MC-130J Commando II is an upgraded version of the C-130 cargo plane.
• The plane assists in infiltration, exfiltration, and resupply for special ops forces.
• The US Air Force recently began utilizing the cargo plane to airdrop palletized munitions.

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 US Air Force utilizes its fleet of existing planes.