There is no Russian military threat to the Baltics, or Western Europe short of total war. The European question – which is Anglos out of Continental Europe, and Continental European – Russian rapprochement – will not be decided on the battle field. It’s the Anglo-Empire’s internal weakness, the disillusionment of the White middle class who carries the show, and its talent to **** off other peoples around the globe without offering enough benefits in return that will cause its downfall, not military action. In any case, let’s see who’ll be the next Ceasar in DC …

Talking military, the Baltics are a dead end. Compare 1945, Wehrmacht Army Group Courland. The Russians would be idiots to go there. If a military solution in Europe, then through Southern Poland and aiming for the Rhine as fast as possible (or the Atlantic coast if things go “well”), no reserves and all out with everything there is. All the poorhouses east of Germany are not worth a war; they will gravitate towards Russia naturally in case the Empire shows terminal weakness.

Don’t want to open a new thread, thus reviving this here …

Any qualified guestimates out there what the real tactical radius of an A400M might be, when assault lifting the average protected 8×8 (25-26 metric tons) in a real world mission profile, w/o air-air-refueling, say 20 minutes on the ground at the objective airstrip for unloading and ground maneuvers, and reasonable reserves? Under the assumption that it might have to return to home base if the objective airstrip is blocked.

Back to base when comlink is lost.

PC-6 with AU-23A style pylons, or AT-802U with ZVI PL-20 gun pods and/or 2.75in rocket pods.
One should think that after 15 years of dirty little wars there’d be an off-the-shelf solution! Negative.

Weapons release at Mach 6 would be – interesting. Doubt such a thing would use kinetic effectors.

About the config: At Mach 6 no wings of any size are required. The thing here has wings. So I guess M6 is a dash capability? With a quite lower cruise. The kink in the wing, paired with only one vertical fin to avoid nasty vibration problems. The engine pods seem huge, maybe variable cycle? Twin-engined config is interesting, taking into account potential asymetric thrust issues at high speed. Could the idea be a scramjet between them for dash capability?

Dare say no worthy targets for the F-22 up north.

The guy is a piece of art. Almost toooo good to be true …
Darn, don’t want to start conspiracy theories here, but his behavoour is like an Easter Gift for certain people! Either he’s really that total maniac, or do I smell fish here?? Just saying … :rolleyes: