highveldtdrifter, please do not bring down what was a reasonable A400M debate with puerile character attacks. It doesn't achieve a thing.
One of the ESR baselines was 2000nm range with a 25 t payload. The brochure figures which you clearly deride claim that A400M will offer a 35% improvement, that's 2700 nm with 25t. Also the max payload at 2.25g required by the ESR is 32 t. A400M claims to be able to carry 37 t, so even if it was 5 t overweight (which I doubt), it would still meet the ESR...
And incidentally I screwed an excellent deal out of the last car salesman I dealt with!