USAF Special Ops Command plans to design, build and fly an amphibious Herc
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USAF Special Ops Command plans to design, build and fly an amphibious Herc
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Have they added another door on the c130J Herc?, I ask because that’s on the wrong side and the codes are correct so it’s not a mirror image, is it possibly added because the port crew door would be to short to reach? Though looking closely it’s got a step on the port side too… you learn something every day.
I expect you would need a door each side to get access to the floats so you can come alongside and moor both portside and starboardside to.
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What a hairbrained idea and more.
Too many ways to insert and exract spec ops folks that require less support and are more mobile and have actually been used in sensitive scenarios.
Must be same folks that planned Kabul, huh?
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What a hairbrained idea and more.
Too many ways to insert and exract spec ops folks that require less support and are more mobile and have actually been used in sensitive scenarios.
Must be same folks that planned Kabul, huh?
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Might be useful for urgent deep ocean resupply, picking up injured or carrying spec forces to join a carrier etc? I wonder what it does for fuel burn and range.
Does this come under the category of a solution in search of a problem?
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What wave height could it cope with? Is this something for open ocean scenarios?
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Is this something for open ocean scenarios?
The ShinMaywa is designed to operate in conditions up to sea state 5 - conditions in the North Atlantic and Pacific exceed sea state 6 over 20% of the time in winter.
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA487947.pdf