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Old 06-06-2007, 02:56 AM   #38 (permalink)
Garry
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Originally Posted by Jimmy View Post
If you think "capabilty" means "raw lifting ability" you need to reassess what the C-17 was designed for.

The AN-22 has a SLIGHT advantage in GTOW, and a couple hundred km. The C-17 can do things that AN-22 simply cant, or at least do them better.
I can think of only one - cruise speed?.... there should be something much more for $200mln price tag.... probably 4 times the An-22 probable procurement cost (it is no longer produced)

the question was that Candid does not carry Abrams... and I just stated that this kind of role was reserved to ****, which can land and take off from unpaved strips (just like Candid), and it did in Afghanistan
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