The Air National Guard in the U.S has modular units that can be fitted to their C130's for fighting fires, why not here. We just retired the C130H fleet, perhaps not best idea to start putting firefighting stresses onto the older airframes, but why not the J model's. Richmond would of been the ideal staging point for this recently. Earlier this week I heard 4 or 5 C130's operating in formation around Mudgee, would that money not have been better spent putting them to a different operational use?