I think it might be better from a safety and reliability standpoint to keep gunships as prop aircraft. Fuel and maintenance alone will kept that a reality but in the age of drones, gunships might no longer plane such pivotal roles in counter-insurgency warfare.
Macacos in Mars
Impressive
imagine a martian landing with the whole world watching. the whole world is watching this neil armstrong moment as a crazy hair mulllato leaps out of the space crap in a vibrant greens an yellow space suit and plants a brazialin flag iinti the groun as his spade flip flops make contact the red dust.
His words of inspiration for his countrymen and the world are:
CLUBE DE RETEGAS DO FLEMNGO FOR THE WIN
with the cheers of
HUEHUEHUEBEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE echoing the entirety of the milky way galaxy and even space and the outer reaches of the known universe itself, surpassing the likes of Voyager 2 and the speeds of light molecules.
The next figures to appear from the shantytown spacecraft are a clad of giggly giggly girls in large breast and blossoms who somehow weather the elements of the martian climate and minimal atmosphere in their bikinis and set up umbrellas, volleyball nets, tents, and beach chairs at the edge of a frozen lake to get their suntans and relaxation while their boyfriends begin a epic scrimmage of football and unofficially starting the known universe’s first interplanetary FC.
Radio waves are jammed by incessant samba music as Earth’s other space agencies approach the red planet. Earth’s top astronauts and scientists look out their spacecrafts and gaze at the sight of a large jesus statute atop a mountain with the sign COME TO BRASIL above brightly collected favelas with people riding around cooters and motorcycles instead of buggies, which were stolen and sold for scrap so drug dealers can import drugs from paraguay and sell to members of EUSA.
Brazil is not just a country or a planet. It’s not just a culture or lifestyle or even a state a mind.
Brasil is all.
Brazilian MIC is basically like what Honda cars were like in the 80s. Simple, reliable and cheap but still very capable and built to a western standard. They just don't have every frill imaginable. I for one want to know what they did after they bought into the FS2020 design back when they bought into the Gripen program. A big chunk of that FXX procurement process was that Brazil would get access to stealthy tech for future development. It would be cool to see a Gripen based discount stealth fighter coming out of Brazil. Basically like what the Su75 would be if Russia wasn't an incompetent paper tiger.
>Simple, reliable and cheap but still very capable and built to a western standard.
Yes and no. The problem is production rate, Embraer can sell them for cheap because they didn't over invest in underutilized production lines or displaced their commercial lines.
Their current production rate is problematic.
As far as i am aware embraer production problems came for the fact that their commercial planes aka the E2 new generation planes got fricked by moronic us union rules not allowing certain weight in planes (because main line pilots are affraid of planes like the e195 e2 since they are "regional" but with a range to go basically anywhere in continental usa that is piloted by "mainline pilots"
So they got spooked and the entire e2 line got fricked and embraer ended only producing e175 first generation until they got a ton of order by the leafs from porter airlines for the e2 195.
So now they are keeping a single line for e175s older gen due to moronic union rules in burgerland and increasing e2 production rate.
But i was not aware they were having problems in their military production like the c 390, in fact they seem very competent in mass production considering they took over the entire small jetliner segment in the last 15 years.
The Brazilian Gripen line only actually started normal operations like a month or two ago. IIRC, the Embraer said they had the capacity to build up to 16 KC390 per month if demand that great actually happened but they can't invest in a production line capable of that until they have confirmed orders for huge quantities. Honestly the US is the only country that would ever make an order big enough to justify that. In theory India could also place a huge order too but that's unlikely plus India would surely demand local production, the project would stall and then they'd just end up ordering directly from Brazilian factories in the end anyway. Exactly like their T90 purchase.
Doesn't matter if India asks to be made there, most of the plane is still built within the main assembly line and then they just ship the rest to other countries.
That's how they do with their assembly lines in the US, they just ship the unfinished stuff, finish there and it gets the "Made in USA" sticker.
Saudi Arabia is also another one that will be announced this year, around 30 units.
>Brazilian MIC is basically like what Honda cars were like in the 80s. Simple, reliable and cheap but still very capable and built to a western standard
LMAO no
>boeing and lockheed entrants exceed requirements easily and are in general excellent planes >duhhhh we already have the c-130 and we will never ever ever ever want tactical airlift better than it so actually we don't want this anymore >every single fricking year for the next half century has the military whinging that they want intermediate airlift
reliable engineering and building up a good reputation
There are many parts made by Safran on Embraers.
https://web.safran-group.com/safran-on-board/en/kc-390.html
BRRRRRAPPP
cheaper and awesome and reliable annnd freindly and cheap and stol and carries alot
They should turn it into a gunship, like what the US did with their C-130s.
you are autistic
It was actually designed so larger variants and armed variants could be built off of it.
It just doesn't make sense, it's better to just throw PGM's from the back, like that C-130 project.
I think it might be better from a safety and reliability standpoint to keep gunships as prop aircraft. Fuel and maintenance alone will kept that a reality but in the age of drones, gunships might no longer plane such pivotal roles in counter-insurgency warfare.
imagine a martian landing with the whole world watching. the whole world is watching this neil armstrong moment as a crazy hair mulllato leaps out of the space crap in a vibrant greens an yellow space suit and plants a brazialin flag iinti the groun as his spade flip flops make contact the red dust.
His words of inspiration for his countrymen and the world are:
CLUBE DE RETEGAS DO FLEMNGO FOR THE WIN
with the cheers of
HUEHUEHUEBEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE echoing the entirety of the milky way galaxy and even space and the outer reaches of the known universe itself, surpassing the likes of Voyager 2 and the speeds of light molecules.
The next figures to appear from the shantytown spacecraft are a clad of giggly giggly girls in large breast and blossoms who somehow weather the elements of the martian climate and minimal atmosphere in their bikinis and set up umbrellas, volleyball nets, tents, and beach chairs at the edge of a frozen lake to get their suntans and relaxation while their boyfriends begin a epic scrimmage of football and unofficially starting the known universe’s first interplanetary FC.
Radio waves are jammed by incessant samba music as Earth’s other space agencies approach the red planet. Earth’s top astronauts and scientists look out their spacecrafts and gaze at the sight of a large jesus statute atop a mountain with the sign COME TO BRASIL above brightly collected favelas with people riding around cooters and motorcycles instead of buggies, which were stolen and sold for scrap so drug dealers can import drugs from paraguay and sell to members of EUSA.
Brazil is not just a country or a planet. It’s not just a culture or lifestyle or even a state a mind.
Brasil is all.
Macacos in Mars
Impressive
Brazilian MIC is basically like what Honda cars were like in the 80s. Simple, reliable and cheap but still very capable and built to a western standard. They just don't have every frill imaginable. I for one want to know what they did after they bought into the FS2020 design back when they bought into the Gripen program. A big chunk of that FXX procurement process was that Brazil would get access to stealthy tech for future development. It would be cool to see a Gripen based discount stealth fighter coming out of Brazil. Basically like what the Su75 would be if Russia wasn't an incompetent paper tiger.
>Simple, reliable and cheap but still very capable and built to a western standard.
Yes and no. The problem is production rate, Embraer can sell them for cheap because they didn't over invest in underutilized production lines or displaced their commercial lines.
Their current production rate is problematic.
As far as i am aware embraer production problems came for the fact that their commercial planes aka the E2 new generation planes got fricked by moronic us union rules not allowing certain weight in planes (because main line pilots are affraid of planes like the e195 e2 since they are "regional" but with a range to go basically anywhere in continental usa that is piloted by "mainline pilots"
So they got spooked and the entire e2 line got fricked and embraer ended only producing e175 first generation until they got a ton of order by the leafs from porter airlines for the e2 195.
So now they are keeping a single line for e175s older gen due to moronic union rules in burgerland and increasing e2 production rate.
But i was not aware they were having problems in their military production like the c 390, in fact they seem very competent in mass production considering they took over the entire small jetliner segment in the last 15 years.
The Brazilian Gripen line only actually started normal operations like a month or two ago. IIRC, the Embraer said they had the capacity to build up to 16 KC390 per month if demand that great actually happened but they can't invest in a production line capable of that until they have confirmed orders for huge quantities. Honestly the US is the only country that would ever make an order big enough to justify that. In theory India could also place a huge order too but that's unlikely plus India would surely demand local production, the project would stall and then they'd just end up ordering directly from Brazilian factories in the end anyway. Exactly like their T90 purchase.
Doesn't matter if India asks to be made there, most of the plane is still built within the main assembly line and then they just ship the rest to other countries.
That's how they do with their assembly lines in the US, they just ship the unfinished stuff, finish there and it gets the "Made in USA" sticker.
Saudi Arabia is also another one that will be announced this year, around 30 units.
A huge part of what made that era of Honda great was their in house developed and built powertrains. Brazil does not do engines
>Brazilian MIC is basically like what Honda cars were like in the 80s. Simple, reliable and cheap but still very capable and built to a western standard
LMAO no
how so?
Daily reminder that the Boeing YC-14 was cancelled...
>boeing and lockheed entrants exceed requirements easily and are in general excellent planes
>duhhhh we already have the c-130 and we will never ever ever ever want tactical airlift better than it so actually we don't want this anymore
>every single fricking year for the next half century has the military whinging that they want intermediate airlift
Mil-journalists are saying that Uzbekistan might announce 2 units for them soon(tm).
I was wondering why the Argentinean flag and turns out Argentina is part of this program too and producer of some parts.
Is the other a czech and portuguese flags?Do they also produce parts for the plane?
Yea they are some of the main suppliers for the program.
Not Boeing.