Yesterday at 02:08 PM1 day The War ZoneC-17 Will Fly Until 80 Years Old Under New USAF Airlifter...The Air Force does not expect to have fully transitioned to its Next-Generation Airlift aircraft until 2075.Family of systems, new engines for C-17s, etc… lotta ideas in the article.Family of systems is a buzz phrase but probably the best COA. Crewed / Unmanned fleet
21 hours ago21 hr It’ll fly until they find cracks in the wing boxes like they did the C-141 and they immediately field a replacement.
18 hours ago18 hr And they started finding a lot more cracks when the 141s began doing SOLL. Lockheed said we didn't design the plane to do that.
1 hour ago1 hr Author 19 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:It’ll fly until they find cracks in the wing boxes like they did the C-141 and they immediately field a replacement.Probably but I hope AMC could make the argument to not have to get into a problem and just lead the turn with a replacement before we get to fatigue life issuesMy druthers would be to separate out how much lift really needs to be capable of expeditionary / austere delivery and how much just needs to be conventional (air land to at least modest length / width / load bearing prepared runways)Buy commercial freighters for probably half the lift and half having military airlift capability
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