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Well, the C-130 has been pretty much everywhere pretty much forever -- not sure if anyone in the military in the last 5 decades or so has not been in and/or near them at some point?

My Mi-26 experience was as a staff tech (military, but as part of a humanitarian effort) airlifting medical trucks into a flood-struck area in India, like, 30 years ago or so, but as I understand it, they're still used pretty widely outside NATO, even today.

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> Well, the C-130 has been pretty much everywhere pretty much forever -- not sure if anyone in the military in the last 5 decades or so has not been in and/or near them at some point?

Very true. I had the impression that the Mi-26 was considerably more niche, and that there wouldn't be a ton of overlap between operators of the C-130 and the Mi-26. However, I just checked the list of operators on wikipedia (not sure how accurate that is) and Algeria, Jordan, India, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela all field both. There also seems to be civilian operators of the Mi-26.

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