Britain to order systems for dumping cargo from A400M transport aircraft

The British military has announced a tender worth £ 50 million. From its winner, Britain will order airborne cargo drop systems from Airbus A400M transport aircraft.

It is reported by the British portal UK Defense Journal.

According to the terms of the tender, the system should provide air dropping of combat vehicles weighing up to 16 tons or up to 40 containers with a total weight of up to 12 tons. It must be fully integrated with the A400M design. This means that the installation of this system will not require changes in the design of the transport vehicle.

Testing of systems for dropping cargo from British A400M aircraft should start in late 2022 or early 2023. And by 2024, they should have reached a state of "initial operational capability."

At the same time, the winner of the tender will have to provide service maintenance of the systems for 10 years from the date of their start of operation, that is, until 2034.

The A400M is a turboprop military transport aircraft created by the European company Airbus Military. Great Britain is armed with 20 such transporters. In terms of the number of such aircraft, it ranks second after Germany, which has 33 A400M.

Comments

[Sonmaster]

The military transport aircraft does not have a cargo drop system ???

Congratulations Sharik, you goof!

Although I am far from aviation and maybe I am a dunce ...

[Kamchatsky]

Probably, they want to dump a heavy mono-cargo (up to 16 tons), immediately the questions of alignment, strength, compensation of the pitch-up moment arise, etc.

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Kamchatka

Probably, they want to dump a heavy mono-cargo (up to 16 tons), immediately the questions of alignment, strength, compensation of the pitch-up moment arise, etc.

For a long time already they came up with a bunch of systems.
And parachute demusant systems become controllable and very accurate.
Here is an article on VO 2014 ...
https://topwar.ru/43327-tochnaya-vybroska-s-vozduha.html

When technical content was still popular ...

[seregatara1969]

So open the gate and the FSE itself will be lost. Here, to lower anything to the ground without breaking anything, a system is needed here.

[Sasha from Uralmash]

Gospidya! Scary!

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Sasha from Uralmash

Gospidya! Scary!

Modern world airborne systems have an accuracy standard of KVO up to 150 meters.
Dump from 20 km.
They are already manageable.
Modern platforms for parachuting cargo have controls.
Some of them are dual-mode, with different parachutes, especially those that are dropped from high altitudes.

The same Globemasters are equipped with lidars that look forward and down, and sharpened, to determine the winds, their strength and direction at all lower levels.
Just for calculating the drop point, in order to ensure a 150m quo in the most difficult drop conditions.
And most importantly, they are already like rockets.
They, these systems for landing cargo, like missiles, are registered in the avionics of aircraft, and the release is carried out at the signal of the system ...

[Kote Pan Kokhanka]

Quote: Sasha from Uralmash

Gospidya! Scary!

You, Alexander, do not flatter yourself to your Uralmash "this happiness will not fly", the Rose of the Winds proves that the mustache falls in the Elmash area!

[Reserve buildbat]

If only not to visit us on concrete goods

[Kote Pan Kokhanka]

It's dangerous to you! What falls to you will become there !!! Traffic jams!

[Reserve buildbat]

Such is the selyava. You can fly to this taiga land only by helicopter

[Kote Pan Kokhanka]

Well, or "Chef's" on which there are puddles!

[Reserve buildbat]

Shefskaya is crowded now. The bridge to Blucher is closed