Originally Posted by
RVF750
The A380 would be the ultimate Fire bomber really. If you repurposed the centre fuel tank into a water tank.... smaller tanks on the upper deck you could spread the loads to avoid having to re-engineer the floors. It's certainly do-able. Perhaps California should buy one....Would certainly p155 Trump off...
The centre tank and upper and lower decks for fire suppressants is certainly a fine idea even some of the wing tank area, but they are very big mods and lots of fluid transfer internally required.
This needs to be offset against available airports that can fill such a craft in an efficient time frame.
The other issue is then the craft is limited by a very limited fuel load due to such modifications - so it is a fixed base aircraft basically. Most big bombers get a few passport stamps.