Airbus A400M (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The media celebrate the (2-year delay) maiden flight of the new European A400M military transport.
Here movies from the first flight and the technical details:
On the homepage of Airbus a video of the maiden flight in Seville is available.
The house high flying fortress cost around 1.36 million euros per piece; of the 180 at EADS, Europe's largest aerospace and defense group, pre-ordered aircraft ordered Germany only 60!
The 15 m high and 45 m long military transport aircraft can carry tanks, helicopters and crews on the 8700 km distance and is intended to replace the smaller Transall, has a range of only 1850 km.
The Bundeswehr previously served as a transport aircraft, the Airbus A310, the Transall C-160D and the Challenger CL-six hundred and first
So now 60 flying fortresses for Germany to long-range transport of troops and tanks. What do it? The Bonner General-Anzeiger (. V 12 / 13.12.2009) returns a response: "Especially for use in Afghanistan, the much larger turboprop aircraft is required by the normal load of 20 tons of troops and supplies a range should have nearly 3500 Kilomtern and maximum 8,700 kilometers. Extradition is however three to four years behind schedule. France is to receive its first aircraft in 2013, Germany's then your turn "
Now Obama would indeed pull out of Afghanistan before 2011 and our Defense would like to join because in principle. Should Germany not therefore better cancel the order of 20 super-expensive military transport, for 2013/2014 (after France had received the A400M) would be the war in Afghanistan for three years past, and you'd certainly better put the money in direct civilian reconstruction programs. Or not?
The time data and justifications around the A400M let several conclusions:
- It is a hoax.
- Unofficial know that the Afghanistan war will take years and therefore is already planning the long run. The population should possibly be "kept at the bar" with the purely fictitious "withdrawal date in 2011" for the unpopular war.
- The long-range military transport aircraft is designed in truth not for Afghanistan, but for other possible theaters of war. What could this be?
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Tags: A400M , Afghanistan, EADS , Airbus Military
So it is:
- Hoax
- War in Afghanistan will take years, "withdrawal date in 2011" never Stable
- Long-distance military transport A400M must replace the Transall C-160D
The A400M is late because Airbus TurboProp had no previous experience. The payload, which should meet the A400M can only be achieved with a very light chassis - Problem: The vibrations of the engines led to cracks in the outer shell. That was a long time to get a grip.
The A400M, when it should actually be delivered because that do not meet performance targets. Germany ordered 405 copies of the Puma infantry fighting vehicle (successor to the Marder tank) in July 2009 for 3.1 billion euros (largest single order in the defense industry after 1945) in defense group Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW). According to plans, it is intended, the A400M transports a Puma in the whole piece in the areas of application. Now, the Puma must be transported disassembled in three parts, because neither measure nor weight capacity of the A400M meet the requirements.
To penalties for the defense industry is not thought of. The contract was still under Rudolf Sharping (SPD), we recall, closed bungling with much scolding.
That the getting on in years Transall C-160D needs a successor transporter, I do not put into question. However, the technical data of the A400M on a completely different range of applications, as the Transall should ever depict. Was the Transall still for use over Europe designed (1850km range), should the A400M (range 3500-8700km) can operate even worldwide.
It will be a device for interventions.
This is confirmed by the low-level flight characteristics of the A400M. The A400M is supplied with highly accurate and never collected in this form of navigation data to allow a low-level flight at night in 50 meters height above ground in the crisis areas of the world.
What the Federal Government of the debt with $ 2 trillion euro in Germany justify these sums on military spending, I can only describe as 'criminal'. Without question are thousands of jobs in the defense industry. If they but once the physicist ask what the devil builds, he often says only he tüfftelt at its Mirko order and whether war is far away, so he had nothing to do.
Sure Berlin plays with the intention of making the A400M as a showpiece of German military technology to other nations interesting.
There is a shop with the stuff of life and death. Once the oil is running out, no longer flying the A400M.
Ha! It should be yes only 30 purchased for reasons of cost - to be resold 14 of them!
The Bundeswehr, however, would (32 each for 3 Squadron) require 96 machines.
The house high flying fortress cost around 1.36 million euros per piece; ...
1.36 million per piece? So that's what I call a bargain price! : Lol: That would be, according to my Vorkommentator in actual machines required 96 130 560 000 EUR ... - today, the end of 2011, one has to wonder if at all expected such a low unit as 'millions' in politics is ?? Tempora mutantur ...: cry: