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RAF A400M stretches legs on US detachment
With four operational Airbus A400Ms in use, the UK Royal Air Force is working overtime to “unlock” the potential of the service's new tactical transport, with one aircraft now in the USA to assess carriage of the US Army's Stryker armoured fighting vehicle. The A400M from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, has deployed to Fort Bliss in Texas to participate in a 27 September “network integration evaluation exercise”, and will conduct checks with the armoured Stryker, as well as other… (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I guess it's just the Brits, but I wonder why the thing was delivered in the 1st place without those capabilities and why you go for a pig in a poke development up against a proven track record of something already there like the C130-J.