As I wrote a couple of days ago or so:
Yet again 't Bungling Baron Waste o' Space is trying to peddle a pretty useless 5-APU tanker derivative....
You want a modern, tactical tanker-transport with an 18+ tonne offload? Try the Embraer KC-390, which will have 2 wing AAR pods, something which 't Bungling Baron's team seem to have overlooked:
To force the hand of ATrS, just specify an operational requirement for in-theatre AAR support to be provided for the MPA Chinook - because there's no way the A330 Wanderer can meet that requirement! Whereas an A400M Fatlass with a centreline hose certainly could.
....with the complete overkill of a Voyager keeping it company on the other side of the pan.
Which, to maintain the required in-theatre RS, will need constant de-icing at certain times of the year. Because, unlike the TriMotor or VC10K, it won't actually fit in the Timmy hangar at MPA. As the RAF and MoD were told
well over 10 years ago after the measurements were physically checked by those in the know....
But that didn't fit in with their Airships' plans. So, once again, inconvenient true facts were simply ignored.....
