A400M Rollout

[kitnut617]

Whilst trying to avoind raining on anyone's enthusiasm for this particular plane, but it doesn 't look too different from the Future Large Aircraft mock up I saw a Farnborough some years ago. Large being a loosely used word as it seemed to be about the size of a non streched C130, and YES  I DO know what one looks like. I've even been inside one! IF this is the best Airbus can do for military aircraft then I'm afraid they aren't going to get too far. The only tihng that makes it look somewhat good are the damm props!!

The A-400s cargo bay will be a good deal larger than the C-130 though. The C-130 is already limited in what vehicles it can carry. I've been inside a C-130J-30, and i thought it was tiny, only wide enough to park a largish car, possibly a HUMVEE. (but the cockpit was huge).

Only this last year or so I have had a couple of jobs where I had to design and draft up some drilling equipment.  One of the requisites was they had to fit inside a C-130 and the absolute maximum I could make the equipment was 10 feet wide.  These were trailers with drilling stuff piled on it which would be a quite a bit wider than a HUMVEE.

[B787]

Whilst trying to avoind raining on anyone's enthusiasm for this particular plane, but it doesn 't look too different from the Future Large Aircraft mock up I saw a Farnborough some years ago. Large being a loosely used word as it seemed to be about the size of a non streched C130, and YES   I DO know what one looks like. I've even been inside one! IF this is the best Airbus can do for military aircraft then I'm afraid they aren't going to get too far. The only tihng that makes it look somewhat good are the damm props!!

The A-400s cargo bay will be a good deal larger than the C-130 though. The C-130 is already limited in what vehicles it can carry. I've been inside a C-130J-30, and i thought it was tiny, only wide enough to park a largish car, possibly a HUMVEE. (but the cockpit was huge).

Only this last year or so I have had a couple of jobs where I had to design and draft up some drilling equipment.  One of the requisites was they had to fit inside a C-130 and the absolute maximum I could make the equipment was 10 feet wide.  These were trailers with drilling stuff piled on it which would be a quite a bit wider than a HUMVEE.

Yes, but you get the idea. The C-130 can't carry a helicopter, it can't carry the new armoured IED proof vehicles coming into service, nor does even a light tank fit

[Nils]

i have some bad news, during a Belgian Defence Meeting, our MoD said that putting extra money towards the A400M is unacceptable. our armed forces are already operating on an ever-tightning budget and we cant spare the extra buck for the A400M.

if this gets any worse, we might be concidering dropping out of the project.
i can only imagine Belgium buying C-17A's or C-130J's or a C-17/C-27J combo 
time to get me a revell C-17 kit 

[Stargazer2006]

If the A400M does die, here's another alternative:  Can anyone say C-17 Mini-me?

Regards,

Greg

But Japan can't export military equipment

Actually, the very same page has a post from a Japanese who explains that there is nothing constitutional in not exporting military material. It is strictly a choice of the Japanese government not to.

[B787]

The new 747-8 is taking to the skies in a few minutes!

[B787]

The 747-8 flies!

[joncarrfarrelly]

The 747-8 flies!

Yep, looked out the window a few minutes ago and saw her heading north with two chase.
Of course I ran out into the back yard with the binoculars. 

[PR19_Kit]

The 747-8 flies!

There'd have been hell to pay if it didn't!