@Vnomad: Thank you.
@Confucius says: I am glad to see that you would have done only a pale criminal. Calling for a sense of justice past your own breakaway with legality… 😉
Video: Multiple Humvee airdrop (from a single C17)
Notice the only 10t of payloads.
Any link to this investigation VNomad?
Is that new offer a hint that the M346 structure has been beefed-up to sustain the G-load expected in the T-X competition? Hence this CAS offer to offset the increased OP cost (heavier)?
Interesting. Thank you.
Negative. You’ll see in the history of speeches from Airbus Management that they have coordinately switched from referring to Avio by branding it at each occasion GE Avio.
I am not aware that the official name of that company has changed (see company website)
It’s then called a deliberate choice, something that you might be aware of.
Liar!
GE bought avio in 2013. I am puzzled by the insistence of Airbus to fingerpoint GE in that debacle.
Source:
Wiki
Another possible future option might be based on the Avro HS-748 replacement.. the C-295 is the only airplane offered, by the Airbus/ Tata consortium, and with Airbus developing an aerial refueling option for the C-295, it might offer a decent aerial refueling capability on a larger scale than just a few tankers. Since the IAF is looking to buy close to 50+ of those Avro replacements.
Airbus expands and refines air to air refueling
Another option could be 6 to 12 KC-130Js that could serve the role of a MRTT. With 12 C-130Js in the IAF fleet, commonality will be a benefit as compared to adding a new type that has no commonality with other transports or tankers.
Fast Jets Fast Jets Fast jet!
You are not going to refuel a Su30MKI on a long range Brahmos strike with a c295. For this you need alt and speed out of reach of this design. Consider also that 7t off-loaded is nothing. With 2 SH, the IAF would get the same results.
Is India at war? You define the size of your logistic according to war not peace time. I don’t understand the remarks of some here.
Also the C17 being the bulkiest of all transport owned by the IAF, it fly all outsized cargo that they need moving around. Hence the forklift (as their logistics is still organized around lower capacities – what’s the point of having an heavy forklift in every base if you use it once every year?) and the low average tonnage per flight.
When the C17 fly across the globe to repatriate Indian people trapped in a war zone (Yemen), for sure the tonnage will stay low. But then, with its short T.O an landings, rough fields, large capacity, inherent safety and defensive suite, it’s was the plane for the mission.
The cancelation is based on operating cost grounds. It does not matter that this to be an airliner derived A330 or one tagged MRTT by airbus. OP cost would will be roughly the same.
Also, IAF needs penetrative tankers (the 330 is more an offset tanker). IAI has a fairly good panel on offer with Bizjets derived and more classic airliners that use the same systems.
I am also wondering if the C17 recent report is not the result of a commercial war as the point taken against Boeing are fairly ridiculous (it objectively lacks operational feedbacks).
Operating cost not cost. This is important.
Airliner -> IAI 767?
Tanzania found wing’s part highly likely from MH370
aircraft wing part found in Tanzania is “highly likely” to be part of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, an Australian government minister said Friday in what would be the second verified piece of the jetliner.
It’s allegedly an outboard wing flap.
What strikes me the most is the presence of sea shells only found with the part recovered in Fr Mauritia. It suggests, as hinted by Jo, the man who contacted the press, that this part was floating along the shore and sent back at sea each time by the worker specially staffed by the local authorities to clean the beaches by burning everything through campfire (weird as it is illegal to openly burn trashes this way).
We have here already discussed this at the time.
EDIT (found in the straightimes (website) today (080516):
The flaperon, however, is still being withheld by French authorities ever since its discovery on the French island in the Indian Ocean.
“The French authorities exercised their right to hold on to the flaperon, as they need it as court evidence.
“They are still investigating the flaperon pending some documentary information from the authorities, including Boeing,” Minister Liow said.
One year since its discovery ?!!*
Source:
NBC news.com
*This is what should make the headline instead of all those weird abnegation against the pilot leisure time on a game simulator backed by no facts.
From the mouth of an informed speaker (BAE CEO Ian King on Thursday):
Overall sales for the first half edged up 2.8 percent to £8.71 billion (US $11.44 billion). Helped in part by a weakening pound, profits rose to £408 million from £390 million last year.
“In the UK, the result of the European Union referendum will lead to a period of uncertainty, but we do not anticipate any material near-term trading impact on our business,” .
Source:
DefenseNews.com