[CodeToad]

“C-2 can carry 20 tons or so, four times more than the C-130”

BS.

20 tons = 40,000 pounds.

The C-130 has a useful load of 72,000, or 36 tons.

[Oztrich Boy]

You are so wrong.

• you are using short tons, The C-2 performance is given in 10% heavier real tons)
• "useful load" means payload, fuel, crew. The Herc's max payload is only 20 ton over short distances.
• The C-2's max range is 7.500 km, and it can carry 20 ton over that distance (36 ton over 4,500 km)
• The Herc's max range is 3,800 km (ie half the C-2)
• Any guess what the payload over that distance would be?