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@The enlightened, nah man while it's true that Ukrainians don't have enough money lying around, I don't think they need semi strategic air-lifters like AN-70 in justifiable numbers anyway. @Akim, How many AN-70 were required by Ukrainian AF and Ukraine had gone ahead with program solo if...

What you are seeing flying in China as Y-20 is most likely an Antonov design. Keeping that aside, An-70 has theoritically no use for its designer and hence making the project worthwhile will depend on India. 1) Touche, but lets see if Parrikar can kick the sorry asses of HAL and take this...

@Zebra, A-400M is ridiculously expensive piece of machinery and is probably not worth it. IMO India has four options apart from A-400M. 1) An enlarged MTA with payload capacity closer to 30 tons. 2) An-70, but it is pretty much dead. 3) Kawasaki C-2, operational and not as expensive. 4)...