just read this nice little sentence on bbc online:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3159895.stm
Last year the Pentagon agreed to pay $23m to fit laser protection systems to four C-17 military cargo planes - the US equivalent of the British Hercules.
didn't know the poms invented the hercules. and isn't a C-17 slightly bigger than a C-130?
cheers,
al