specifically,
lifting 1,800,000 kg, equivalent to holding up 17,658 kN force under Earths gravity.
so with one hand prime can apply a static load of 8,829kN which is approximately 1665 times more force than he can apply with a punch 5.6kN.
some rough structural analysis indicates that prime can punch through 0.0000117mm of plate steel assuming his fist is approximately 1m x 2m in cross section.
He can push through 0.019mm of plate steel.
if his fist was approximately the same size as mine (8cm x 6cm) he could push through 0.42mm of plate steel
for comparison, the shear strength of a single steel 6mm Diameter bolt is 14kN and we see in all sorts of transformers media bridges or large steel structures being handily destroyed by transformers with little apparent effort. if you consider a panel of steel 1m *2m attached by bolts in a shear formation at intervals of 10 cm, that's 1+2+2+1=6000mm of bolts at 24mm apart (4D is a standard fastener pitch for high load situations), 250 bolts holding the panel in place. 250*14= 3500kN static force required to tear that panel away from it's bolted joint prime could push it out but not punch it out.
these are just static analysis numbers, all those values change when velocity of impact and hardness of impacting material (space robot fist)are taken into consideration.
The communication numbers are interesting. radio waves are line of sight, the horizon is 19.6km away from the top of a 30 meter high tower. To be able to communicate 80km through line of sight prime and all his Autobots would need to be an average height of at least 130m,which is really tall. And I would have thought that patching into satellite communications would allow for global communication rather than just a distance of 800km.
Anyway, I'm in no way picking your work, I've always wondered at some of the numbers used in the G1 tech specs, I now have the education (even though some of it is really rusty since I have hardly used it since uni
) to realise that perhaps Mr Budiansky was picking numbers from his nether regions, some were reasonable and some were off the charts