NOTE! I have a couple of clowns deriding this airplane because armored vehicles have grown in weight. To those individuals YOU DO REALIZE that carrying armored vehicles is a beyond small amount of the gear that they carry. Even the C-17 and C-5 carry armored vehicles only on a limited basis. Its a bragging point, not a feature of modern cargo aircraft. If carrying armored vehicles was the main job of these airplanes then we'd have nothing but C-5s and C-17s in inventory! To claim that the A400M is no longer viable because it can't carry modern IFVs is a joke not worthy of discussion. Grow The F*ck Up!
Why? Because we have a kinda glaring hole in our airlift. Since the retirement of the C-141, we don't have a true medium lifter.
Having finally seen the A400M in person, comparing it to the C-17 and C-130 I'm more than convinced that its what our airlift force is missing.
Sauce for the dish that helped change my mind? Confidence is not high that the KC-46 will be able to successfully flex into the refuel & limited lift role. It was a great idea but I'm not sure its worked out the way many hoped.
Its past time to get ready for the next big one. I'm pretty damn sure that we're in the interwar period before the big one. We need to make sure that when that war comes (probably not on our timeline either), we're ready to go with what we've got.
Time to stack it high and deep. The A400M should be part of our national preps (along with plenty of missiles, tanks, aircraft, bombs, etc...).
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