[Seruzawa]

Yeah. What kind of plane carries “hundreds of troops”? A C-5 carries around 75.

[House Atreides]

Magical planes carrying skinny soldiers with no equipment?

[thegagline]

The C-5 can carry 345 troops. It carried over 800 passengers out of Afghanistan.

[Cold Heart]

An IL-76, carries 150

[fidelis]

Even an Antinov 124 only transports 88 troops.

[TexasGator]

Ilyushin Il-76

[libh8er]

Antonov 225 ?

[MercyFlush]

“A C-5 carries around 75.”

That’s in the cozy passenger compartment. The cargo bay can comfortably hold 150-200 troops and their equipment.

There’s some decent pix of troops on a C-5 here:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-C5-Galaxy-bigger-than-a-747-yet-it-carries-less-troops-than-the-747

[Blueflag]

Charter airliner. Airbus clone of 767.

[Carriage Hill]

One of these beasts (but now destroyed)... aNTONOV 225:

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-antonov-an-225-worlds-biggest-cargo-plane-russia-ukraine-war-7794404/

[PIF]

Yeah. What kind of plane carries “hundreds of troops”? A C-5 carries around 75.

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Think it was a modified Antonov An-124 Ruslan