Airbus A400M (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The media celebrate the (delayed by 2 years) maiden flight of the new European A400M military transport.
Here films from the first flight and the technical details:
On the homepage of Airbus A video is available from the maiden flight in Seville.
The high flying fortress house costs about € 1.36 million per unit, from the 180 at EADS, Europe's largest aerospace and defense group, pre-ordered aircraft ordered Germany alone 60!
The 15 m high and 45 m long military transport aircraft can carry tanks, helicopters and crews over 8700 km and will replace the smaller Transall, which only has a range of 1850 km.
The Bundeswehr has served as a transport aircraft of the Airbus A310, the Transall C-160D and the Challenger CL-601.
So now 60 Flying Fortresses in Germany for long-distance transport of troops and tanks. Just what? The Bonner General-Anzeiger (v. 12./13.12.2009) gives the answer: "Especially for the mission in Afghanistan is the significantly larger turboprop aircraft required, under normal load of 20 tons of troops and supplies a range of should have a maximum of nearly 3500 Kilomtern and 8700 kilometers. The delivery is, however, three to four years behind schedule are: France is to receive its first aircraft in 2013, Germany's then your turn. "
Now Obama wants to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2011 already and would like to join our Defense since in principle. Germany should therefore not be better to cancel the order of 20 super-expensive military transport, since 2013/2014 (after France had received the A400M) but the war in Afghanistan would be for three years past, and we'd put the money safely in a better direct civilian reconstruction programs. Or not?
The period details and explanations about the A400M can be several conclusions:
- It is a canard.
- Unofficial, we know that the war in Afghanistan will take years and therefore plans already in the long run. The population will eventually be "kept at the bar" with the purely fictitious "withdrawal date 2011" for the unpopular war.
- The long-range military transport aircraft has meant in truth not for Afghanistan but for other potential theaters of war. What could that be?
Tags: A400M , Afghanistan, EADS , Airbus Military
So it is:
- Hoax
- War in Afghanistan will take years, "withdrawal date 2011" Never durable
- Long-haul military transport A400M must replace the Transall C-160D
The A400M is delayed because Airbus TurboProp previously had no experience. The payload, which will meet the A400M can only be achieved with a very light chassis - Problem: The vibration of the engines led to cracks in the outer shell. That was not too long to get a grip.
The A400M will be delivered when they should be because in fact, not meet performance targets. Germany ordered 405 copies of the Puma infantry fighting vehicle (IFV successor to the marten) in July 2009 for € 3.1 billion (the largest single order in the defense industry after 1945) the arms group Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW). According to the plans is intended that the A400M transport a cougar in the entire piece in the application areas. Must now be divided into three parts, the Puma transports, because neither measure nor comply with weight capacity of the A400M specifications.
To penalties for the defense industry is not mentioned. The contract was still under Scharping (SPD), we remember with much scolding closed amateurish.
That the somewhat outdated Transall C-160D vans needed a successor, I did not call into question. However, the technical data on the A400M, a very different range of applications than ever to depict the Transall. The Transall was still designed for use over Europe (1850km range), to the A400M (range 3500-8700km) can already operating worldwide.
There will be a device for interventions.
This is confirmed by the low flying characteristics of the A400M. The A400M is highly accurate and has never been collected in this form provides navigation data that will enable a low-level flight at night in 50 feet above the ground in crisis zones around the world.
Which justify the Federal Government of Germany's € 2 trillion in debt with these sums of money to military spending, I can only describe as 'criminal'. Without question, thousands of jobs in the defense industry. But if they ask what time the physicist devil who builds, he often says, he tüfftelt Mirko on his behalf and a possible war is far away, so he had nothing to do.
Berlin certainly also plays with the intention of making the A400M as a showpiece of German military technology to other nations of interest.
There is a shop with the stuff of life and death. Once the oil is running out, no longer flies the A400M.
Ha! There will be purchased for cost reasons, so only 30 - will be sold 14 of them!
The Bundeswehr, however, would require 96 machines (32 each for 3 wing).
The high flying fortress house costs about € 1.36 million per unit, ...
1.36 million per piece? So I call some a bargain price! : Lol: That would be my Vorkommentator According to actual need 96 machines ... € 130.56 million - today, at the end of 2011, one must wonder whether with such a low unit as 'millions' in politics at all expected is? Mutantur tempora ...: cry: