and C17 which is great but can't do anything you want it to do outside of the donkey work...all a bad idea....
Equivocator, whilst i agree with your sentiments in general re finance, your slating of the C-17A is unfounded and simply wrong. As i've said before, the aircraft is highly capable - as demonstrated by its other users - in the Tac role.
In many ways, the C-17 is a victim of its own success - UK Plc has limited the scope of its role because it has proved so valuable and reliable(something that the airbridge was craving for only a year or so ago) in supporting the Strat resupply to theatre. As a result of that success, trying to crowbar a single flying hour on the jet away from that task is nigh-on impossible.
If the C-17 was so tasked, it would, no doubt, perform.
