Surely its time to kill this turkey and stick with the Herc and more C-17s.
It's the C-130 which is now the turkey. As I've posted and linked sveral times, the C-130 is too small to carry the next generation of vehicles for either the UK armed forces or US armed forces. The A400M can manage it. Since we can't afford a fleet of just C-17s the A400M is the only way ahead, even if it does arrive late.