The design team at Airbus could sort this out easily.
What you have, is an aircraft with a lot of capacity and range. Good short field performance and yet at the same time is fast in the cruise at high level.
It is a flexible platform. Maritime, Elint and some freight. It also has a refuelling probe. Expensive, but a lot of bang for your buck. Governments and military are constantly moving the goalposts, the A400 Atlas, has wide goalposts.
Obviously a maritime version would be very different from a transport version, but the basics are there. In the future, its performance and capacity will be important.
As it stands, as a heavy transport, it would not fit the bill, as a maritime aircraft.
But its performance and capacity could be transformed into a very interesting aircraft.
Over to you, Mr Airbus.
Last edited by Stuffy; 22nd Mar 2013 at 00:32.