Originally Posted by
Mil-26Man
True, originally planned to buy 25 A400Ms to replace 50 C-130s. Though able to carry twice the payload over double the range, they cannot be in two places at once. Mass matters.
Nope.
25 C130J planned to repace 60 130-K Yeah that worked well.
We bought A400 as part of being 'Europe; when we were leasing C17. Yeah that worked well.