You could get over the head on limitations of a swashplate if it was crescent shaped with the front of your nosecone mounting a separate array for near-boresight scans. Not sure why one would want a steered array when it pretty much forces you to stick to a non-optimal shape for your aircraft. If one wants a huge scan then the arrays ought to be along the fuselage focusing out to sides; side scan radars are great for survey work. Predatory fish have been using side scan, passive sonar for millions of years. With a good sense to your sides it allows for one to be successful finding prey in the darkness underwater with lesser eyesight.

You’re adding a higher failure rate once you add mechanical steering. Just another system component to fail. The F-22 had the solution to the narrower FOV, cheek arrays. Nobody can find the money to complete it’s forward suite.

The merge would have to take place with far greater offsets if everyone has first shot first kill weapons. Computer aimed turrets and the true LOAL missiles offer a first shot first kill opportunity at wvr. Perhaps computer aimed weapons should be expected to play a defensive role in the future, too.

Let’s say there is a global cool down in the 2020 time frame. Cool down means less agricultural production in some countries already struggling to meet demand. You might just see somebody like China look at Argentina as a realistic trading partner, food for hardware.

Yeah sure , like UK going to nuke argentina over Falklands :rolleyes:

I was more talking about The Village Idi’s comment about SSN.

I really cannot see Brazil supporting this kind of aggression. Definitely would thwart their current economic resurgence. But would be something Venezuela would participate in or at least support on a moral level. But in the end would hurt them, too.

The Argies have motive, but lack the initiative and resolutions to make it all happen. And they would be easy prey for a two front counter offensive. They could not manage two wars.

Go for twice the width and a walkspace between. Flying wing with an H-tail and ramps front & back.

If its a 35 tonnes requirement then that puts it safely in the Embraer C-390, Airbus A400M, and Kawasaki C-2 range. The C-130J is more in the 20 tonnes class.