“How do you protect the C-130, from concentrated air defenses, seems like it would be a sitting duck. So how could you really use it effectively?”
All we know now is that it requires air defenses to be neutralized so that a cargo plane can make the delivery.
Who knows what’s in the development cooker for a more stealthy delivery?
I don’t see why a B-1 couldn’t have a modified drop bay to hold one.