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[DA SWO]

You mean faster then a ship? That would be more accurate.
Reed

No faster than an airplane with a 50% reliability rate.
I doubt it is faster than a Ro-Ro ship either.

 

[Ranger Psych]

Some other issues to consider: How fast can they fly, and would they be limited to flying with a tailwind?
Heavy payloads are awesome, but only if it can there faster then a C5.

Not really. Every shipment on the planet is not time critical, C5's are less reliable than your average high school graduate level workforce, and ships do less than 30kt for the most part. Especially big ships that don't run off nuclear power.