Yes, but how much costly and time-consuming disassembly/reassembly is involved? Does the main rotor head have to come off or is it sufficient to remove/fold the blades etc.? If you only take it apart far enough, you’ll eventually be able to carry even a CH-53E inside a C-130J (although that means shipping it in crates!) 😉
you have a good point.
could not find the same two helicopters being loaded in but this is the closest
Il-76 eating Puma
C-17 eating Sea King
There isn’t One True Set of requirements. If there were, then there’d be no place for different sizes of cargo aircraft, & we can all recognise the value of a mix of different sizes.
But we do know that there have been numerous evaluations of requirements over the last few decades, based on looking at what armed forces want to carry, & what loads cause problems with existing aircraft, & they’ve all concluded that the big constraints are (1) total internal volume, & (2) cargo box cross section. Every air force that’s done this analysis & is able to influence aircraft design has asked for (in addition to smaller, & if it can afford it some very big aircraft) fatter medium-large transports than those designed in the 1950s & 1960s. It’s pretty obvious, if you think about it. A lot of the things that armies have & want airlifted have been getting bigger, & this has been causing strains since the 1970s, at least.
This includes the Soviet air force – hence the An-70.
We can see that these analyses haven’t resulted in identical aircraft. Japan is less interested in field performance than some other countries, for example – hence the C-2.
So, we come back to the Il-476 vs An-70 debate. What part of the Soviet analysis of the 1980s, which the Russian air force insisted right through the 1990s was still valid, suddenly ceased to be correct? Was it technical, or was it the “Must not be Ukrainian” part? I see no evidence whatsoever for the former. It looks to me to be all about Russia buying Russian aircraft, whatever the drawbacks.
I agree with you that the Il-76 fans are strong
but
Il-76 can eat a helicopter, despite what you said
There’s a 1988 game called Super Daisenryaku for the Sega Genesis
there is a map where Japan and Russia fight over the Kuril Islands
why don’t you go play that map as Japan and tell us how Russia responds and you’ll get your answer. Since its set in 1988, it should be close to whats available in 1991.
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