https://armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2025/radia-to-build-worlds-largest-military-cargo-aircraft-for-u-s-and-nato-forces
last I saw they were trying to sell this dumbass plane as a windmill blade carrier. Literally never going to happen. Must be a money laundering scheme.
>>64291252Your moms dildo arrived.
>>64291252>growing transatlantic defence cooperationthese guys living under a rock or something?
>>64291252Wow that is ugly, but impressively large. Where would they land the damn thing?
Who the fuck wrote the article? It's just AI slop.
>>64291270Supposedly, it can land on sub 6k foot runways.Fucking doubt.
>>64291252Literal "who?"
>>64291252I kinda like it. It has the blunt, functional oddball appearance of an aircraft built by the British in the 1960s.
>>64291252I tried looking up this company on wikipedia, but there isn't a wiki page for them so let's just say I have my doubts.
>>64292360anon I think you might be dumb, gay, retarded, and possibly even black.this is the first result for "radia aircraft company" it's also the first result for "radia windrunner"
>>64292430Yes, I'm sure according to their own website they're super great. That's not what I was looking for.
>>64292360>>64292430This company gives me Stavatti vibes. Great formatting to advertise on a random website with no real world products to show for it.
>>64291252Imagine the amount of anti ship missiles
>>64291252i would love to see that in service, like some reinvented zeppeling (it must end in some spectacular cathastrophe like 9/1ing against the dubai tower just before ww3)
Something I've heard a lot lately is about transport aircraft being down rated as time goes on because of lower take off capability at higher temperatures.Is it possible to optimize an airframe for higher temperatures?
>>64292779Probably just the old ass engines not being able to withstand the strain even with impeccable maintenance over the decades.
this thing is supposed to be built at the Grottaglie "spaceport" as a replacement for the Virgin Orbit-Sitael project
>>64291252Was making it ugly part of the procurement request?
>>64293092among other totally realistic projects, that spaceport was supposed to host 2-hour spaceflights from Grottaglie to Los Angeles
>support existing fleets of strategic airlifters that remain operational but are out of production, such as the C-130 Hercules,Don't they still make Hercs or other C-130? Not that it's really strategic.
>>64291252>An-225 but looks like a dildowhy does everything new sucks
>>64291252>>64291261I kind of like how goofy it looks.
>>64291252>flying submarine dildo
>>64292627>1 will protect you, the other 5 will try to kill youwho you got /k/
>>64291252This looks like it takes an hour or three to fill out the check boxes to even get one of these into the air.
>>64291252That thing is Fugly but I guess it doesn't matter so long as it works.
>>64293246SM-39
>>64291252Jesus can you imagine loading that thing up with rapid dragon and shitting out like 300 JASSMs
>>64292331It's like a Blackburn Beverley and a C5 had vaguely autistic children
>>64292627Thos is just some teens Flyout designs
>>64291252 It is too round at the front. It needs to be pointy. Round is not scary. Pointy is scary. This will put a smile on the faces of the enemy. They will think that it is a huge robot dildo flying toward them.
>>64291252Das a big girl
>>64293640Passengers in the tail boom, parachutist passengers in the tail boom even. Has to be British.
>>64291252Why is it bent
>>64291252BANANA PLANE! QUICK, PAINT IT YELLOW!
>>64293640>Beverly! My beloved!A memory of a simpler, better, time - when aircraft were REAL aircraft.
>>64291252>>64291270Its aircraft simliar to Beluga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_BelugaVery big internal volume but cargo weight is average. 77 tons. its Same as C-17 or cargo Boeing-777.Its specifically designed to carry wind turbine 100 meters log future designs blades.Military barely has such low density cargo.
>>64295528Do you think it's a structural limit or could they slap on a couple more engines
>>64295431So tail doesn't hit ground when aircraft pulls nose up during take off and lading.
>>64295534>structural limit or could they slap on a couple more enginesNTA but my guess is that would be a lift issue with those stubby wings, plus a thrust issue.
>>64295624Its wings aint stubby at all. Its just scale of fuselages makes them look small. Also its straight wings with massive flaps designed to max lift at low speed for low landing speed and short run off. Because of this cruse mach limited to 0.6 it aint good for cruise efficiency.
>>64293246The Razor is clearly the protagonist's plane, there's no other choice.
>>64295528Wings are retardedly short for the size, that'd be the first thing you'd have to changeBut giving it adequately large wings to make proper use of the interior space would make it a completely different ball game logistically, you'd need all new hangars and god knows what else, it would also affect the takeoff/landing profile
>>64293640>BeverlyWas it named after an architect's wife?
>>64295528I fucking hate wind turbines holy shit. Most pointless renewable energy source, mogged by nuclear energy.
>>64295906Similar wing loading to the AN-124, similar payload. It needs much larger wings to handle tanks or IFVs in proportion to that fuselage. Basically a new plane.
>>64296049>Similar wing loading to the AN-124, similar payload.AN-124 carries 120-150 tons not 77.
>>64291252It's hideous.
>>64291270>>64292122The sheer wing surface area should be enough for a modern airfield.The funnier thing would be this thing dropping dumb bombs.
>>64295933Yeah, when she was heavily pregnant probably.
>>64291252
>>64292779Haven't heard that it's most commonly due to stress on the airframe. It's kind of a meme since the Russians regularly operate "expired" airframes to mostly good results. Companies claim to be able to extend the life of the airframe but it sounds like bullshit to me. All theyre doing is xraying it to see if its fucked then calling it gtg. Waste of money.
>>64296080It only carries 77 tons? Pathetic. That's not even growth room if turbine blades get heavier.
This aircraft is gay. It displeases me greatly.
>>64291252when?
The straight wings and twin tails give it an old-fashioned look, and the curved fuselage also resembles the flying banana.
>>64297066JetZero is planing to fly a blended wing body aircraft in 2027. USAF is pretty interested in it apparently. No word on the skyscraper sized flesh golem masquerading as a giant robot though.
Just rebuilt her and give her a new engine.
>>64292627Bottom right looks like a Star Fox 64 enemy.
>>64296322>55m Rampion Offshore Wind Turbine Blades: 12 tons>122m Bard VM Very Large Wind Turbine Blades: 26 tons
>>64297066Can we get Jet Alone first?
>>64297181Please don't post gore anon
>>64296117>>64296898>>64295922Its got the optimal subsonic dorky shape. Swept wings are non-optimal, pic related. Welcome to reality you're here forever
>>64291270It just flattens the ground due to its weight.Wherever it lands becomes a runway.
>>64291268jejEither that or they're trying to push a narrative.
>>64295528>low density cargoparatroopers ?
>>64293113C-130s are tactical airlifters. Cheap and rugged enough for moving shit around locally in-theater but the turboprops are too slow to move shit around inbetween continents.This is the problem that the PLAAF is running into now that they're getting serious about trying to project force. All their airlifters are old and outdated, and they dont have the capability to timely drop paratroopers and resupply an invasion of Taiwan at the same time.
>>64298324Half their airlift fleet has been Jerry rigged into tankers too. Anything beyond exercises will immediately stretch resources thin.
>>64298324unrelated but fun fact. Most western militaries are facing the opposite problem. C-130's are too big and most are running missions at 50% capacity or less. So there is a huge need for smaller platforms like CASA CN-235. US SOCOM experimented with the C-27J Spartan to deal with this problem but then you get stuck in situations where you need a C-130 but you only have a C-27J in theater. I fucking love logistics quandaries.
Buy some you fags.
>>64295919yeah but the 36 almost looks like it could possibly exist, instead of being a fever dream
>>64298373What happened to the Transall?
>>64298373I've actually experienced this firsthand in Africa. I was in Niger when the Air Force was trying to build a big airbase there, and the problem that we were running into while the runway was being built was that the nearest local airport couldn't support C-17s, so C-130s had to make four and a half hour flights almost every day all the way from Germany to resupply us. Smaller SOCOM-oriented aircraft have their uses, but are absolutely unable to generate the level of support needed to sustain an entire logistical footprint the size of even a single base that is located in an undeveloped environment.
>>642983822nd this
>>64292796Prop or jet?
>>64298382It's toast.
>>64297628Sure, that just makes it really weird to offer for military use. What are they going to do, fly toilet paper in it? Instead of an ultrawide body aircraft like this, for turbine blades, they should make a skeletonized cargo plane, like the Skycrane helicopters. Done right, the craft could take two or three blades at a go. If it could carry some huge amount of cargo, not just volume, it would be more applicable.
>>64298373>C-27J SpartanVery neat plane but very small. Not really a cargo plane, more a personell-and-some-gear plane.
>>64298910we can rebuild her we have the technology
>>64296146>The funnier thing would be this thing dropping dumb bombs.How many flashbangs do you reckon it could fit?
>>64299635Then why won't you do it?
>>64295919Nah it's clearly an antagonist boss enemy.
