Posted on 08/21/2022 5:47:15 PM PDT by krogers58
Never heard of the Chosin Reservoir? Hungnam? (Hint, the Hungnam evacuation ended Dec. 24, 1950.
The US got their butts whipped by the Chicoms in North Korea in 1950. The Marines did make a decent showing in the breakout and fighting retreat. Meanwhile, while X Corps was being evacuated through Hungnam, the 8th Army was also in rapid retreat from North Korea.
I personally prefer Zepplins as missle carriers.
C-5’and C-17’s make sense.
KC-10’s, C-46’s or Civilian 747’s make no sense and would be a $10 Billion boondogle for LM or L3 to modify them for this capability.
SOFIA cost us like $1B and that was modifying just one 747 to open a door in flight, and they weren’t trying to throw something out of it.
The 747 doesn't have a back cargo door.
The C-130 and the C-17 do, but the 747 cargo aircraft does not.
I don’t believe we can meet our climate targets if we add a fleet of 747s to our air force arsenal.
So this idea is dead on arrival.
Maybe our new best friends in Ukraine can build us 20 new CF6 powered AN-124’s Pro Bono.
They owe us.
Yep
Surely we can run them on “sustainable” aero fuels.....
“Surely we can run them on “sustainable” aero fuels.....”
I’m not sure Biomass will cut it, but if we want to be ‘part of the solution’, rather than ‘part of the problem’, then we may have no choice.
Yes I’ve heard of all of those.
Only if it is painted black.
From the headline I was imagining fleets of FedEx, UPS, and DHL jets flying bombing runs over China ...
All of that sh!t could be ONCE AGAIN made in the USA. We chose to outsource the production to screw over American workers and to maximize corporate profits.
Say some old long range hyper-sonic Phoenix missiles leftover from the F-14 program.
So have we. USS Vincennes. And the way it happened with them is the way it would happen with these missile carriers. And similar to KAL007.
Misidentification in a hostile encounter. KAL007 there was some confusion about an RC-135 that was flying an oval and crossed paths with the 747. The pilot could see it was a large Boeing and thought it was an airliner, but also thought it could be conducting spying as it was off course and overflying Soviet territory. Ground based commanders thought it was a spy plane. (this incident is why Reagan cleared GPS for worldwide use)
With Vincinnes, they were in a hot area with Iranian attacks. The airliner was descending towards it’s landing. Vincinnes thought it was attacking.
So when “airliner” airframes start launching cruise missiles, every airliner in the sky will get looked at hard, and mistakes will be made.
Loose lips sink ships
But that was a unique, exceptional, and creative individual.
LOL!
Thanks!
It would indeed require a modification. Military cargo planes have ramps that can be lowered inflight. 747’s have cargo doors that open outward. Try that inflight, and it will be torn away from the airframe, most likely taking the right horizontal stabilizer with it.
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