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Canada's strategic airlift capability megathread (CC177, CC130J, A400M?)
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FAA tests pilotless hybrid cargo aircraft in Louisiana eVTOL program | Fox News
The FAA tested Elroy Air's Chaparral, a pilotless hybrid-electric cargo aircraft that can carry over 500 pounds and take off vertically without a runway.
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Is fire retardant a cargo package?
Beans, bullets and bandages?
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Canadian VTOL Cavorite X7 Closer to All-Weather Certification
This hybrid-electric VTOL with unique transforming wings was purposely built to withstand Canadian winters and provide year-round regional mobility
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Another lifter that is more tactical than strategic but it is moving up the scale.... and it is Canadian
A hybrid that aims higher.
The Horizon Aircraft X7 eVTOL will be the mission-ready hybrid electric eVTOL in North America. Electric Efficiency. Redundant safety systems.
www.horizonaircraft.com
680 kg to 800 km on batteries. Crewed (1 + 6) but I am guessing that uncrewed would not be a leap.
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Out of Lindsay, Ontario.
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USAF: Widebody Underproduction May Hamper Civil Reserve Air Fleet | Aviation Week
Industry’s inability to meet demand for widebodies could hurt the U.S. military’s ability to rely on the civil reserve air fleet, the USAF mobility boss warns.
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PaywallUSAF: Widebody Underproduction May Hamper Civil Reserve Air Fleet | Aviation Week
Industry’s inability to meet demand for widebodies could hurt the U.S. military’s ability to rely on the civil reserve air fleet, the USAF mobility boss warns.
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Sorry. My main interest was in noting the importance of the CRAF fleet in US logistics. It applies to air and sea lift, and, given the use of rail and road, land lift. Not all tasks need to be uniformed tasks.
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ACK.
I think for a lot of people do not understand the fact of how much the US Military (which is definitely the best equipped and best logistically supported Military in the world, with the largest fleet of uniformed logistics systems; trucks, ships and aircraft) need to rely on civilian fleets to augment deployments and logistics support.
Oh I imagine some busy minds at NDHQ are or should be looking at Cargojet, Westjet and Air Canada not to mention Marine Atlantic ( 6 Please)
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The USG helps with aircraft financing and offsetting acquisition costs, ideally the GoC would offer to do the same for all relevant airlines. It is up to the airline to participate or not. FedEx, UPS and other freight companies as well as the larger domestic carriers are all on board down here.
It would appear with the shuttering of the 747 line, and no wide body freight capable aircraft being made by Boeing or Lockheed anymore, that the options are drying up -- as the USG isn’t going to subsidize Airbus airframes made outside the US, and I don’t think Airbus has an interest in US based production.
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Autonomous C!30-Js?
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Merlin Moves Into System Integration Phase For C-130J Autonomy | Aviation Week
Merlin received an $8.9 million U.S. SOCOM order to integrate autonomy software into a Lockheed Martin C-130J cockpit, advancing toward future flight testing.
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US Air Force to arm C-17 and C-130 transport aircraft with FAMM-P cruise missiles to supplement bomber missions
The U.S. Air Force will field pallet-launched FAMM-P cruise missiles on C-17 and C-130 transport aircraft in 2027 under the Dragon Cart program, anchoring a $12.6 billion, 28,000-missile five-year acquisition plan with Anduril, CoAspire, and Zone 5.
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Autonomous long range bombers?
