MontyB
All-Blacks Supporter
An A400M, Airbus are looking to sell us a few as replacements for the old C130H's we are flying currently.
They have four aircraft on the short list:
C130J
A400M
C-17 (secondhand)
KC-390 Embraer
But there are other contenders:
The Japanese C-2
Italian Spartan
I know the airforce would like the C-17, personally, I like the A400M but I suspect the government will opt for secondhand C130Js in a continuing effort to do the most half-arsed job.
That being said we are used to flying and maintaining the Hercules so the transition would be the easiest to deal with.