little bit of info on how things work. In most cases the military have a company do a feasability study to decide which aircraft is most suited to its needs. They send out various requirements to the companies and say we want this, can your product do it. After they get the reports back they then go to the other company and say what the other has beaten them in can you adjust it, or perhaps offer a better deal to make up for it. After all that is done, in most cases the better design is chosen. There is no point in saying one is better than the other simply because that isn't true. While one airforce might need the capabilities of the Antanov it might be completely useless for another where as the C130 A400 or even the C17 may fill the roll perfectly, an vice-versa. It could have 7000HP and it still might be useless.

The main reason the RAF got their C-17s was because they were fed up using Heavylifts/Volga Dnepr AN-124s...

I could never see the RAF operating a Russian type - at least not for at least 30 years - we have all our capability sorted until then.