MCALS® Cargo Aircraft Launch System
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tsunami
me parece que es un medio para entregar cargas con precision.
aunque tambien podrìa ser un sistema de lanzamiento de misiles crucero desde aviones de transporte con rampa...
aunque tambien podrìa ser un sistema de lanzamiento de misiles crucero desde aviones de transporte con rampa...
Ya en los 70 se propuso un B-747 con 72 misiles de crucero!!!
Más acá en el tiempo se hablo también de un C-17 como vector de misiles de crucero, como opción de nuevo bombardero estrategico.
O el Galaxy lanzando un ICBM Minuteman!!!
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tsunami
encontre esto:
Raytheon Deploys Miniature Air Launched Decoys From C-130 Cargo Aircraft
YUMA PROVING GROUNDS, Ariz., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) launched two Miniature Air Launched Decoy instrumented shapes from the ramp of a C-130 Hercules equipped with the new Raytheon-funded MALD® Cargo Air Launched System (MCALS). This test marked the first deployment of a MALD airframe from a cargo aircraft.
MALD is a state-of-the-art, low-cost flight vehicle that is modular, air-launched and programmable. It weighs less than 300 pounds and has a range of approximately 500 nautical miles (about 575 statute miles). The current MALD family includes both the baseline MALD and a stand-in jammer variant called the MALD-J.
"Dispensing the MALD family of weapons from cargo aircraft gives warfighters an important new capability they currently don't have in today's high-threat environment," said Harry Schulte, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems' Air Warfare Systems product line. "MCALS opens the door for the non-traditional use of a high-capacity aircraft to deliver hundreds of MALDs during a single combat sortie."
MCALS has a steel, birdcage-like framework body that can hold as many as eight MALDs. MCALS is loaded on a standard cargo pallet, placed on a transport aircraft, and at a pre-determined altitude rapidly ejects the MALDs, which then initiate a standard wing deployment and engine ignition sequence.
"MCALS is another example of the innovative and affordable technologies Raytheon engineers are developing to support the warfighter," said Bob Francois, vice president of Raytheon Advanced Missiles and Unmanned Systems.
The baseline MALD, which is currently in production, protects aircrew and airborne systems by mimicking the signatures and combat flight profiles of U.S. and allied aircraft. The MALD-J protects aircrew and airborne systems by reducing or eliminating the need for manned stand-in jamming aircraft.
Raytheon Company, with 2010 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 89 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.
http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=irol-newsArticle_pf&id=1567680
el coso naranja que sale por la compuerta, parece una especie de cabeza con ojivas multiples de bajisima firma radar. Y es un arma lanzable desde transportes, lo que los convertiría en una especie de "arma estratégica"... no??
Raytheon Deploys Miniature Air Launched Decoys From C-130 Cargo Aircraft
YUMA PROVING GROUNDS, Ariz., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) launched two Miniature Air Launched Decoy instrumented shapes from the ramp of a C-130 Hercules equipped with the new Raytheon-funded MALD® Cargo Air Launched System (MCALS). This test marked the first deployment of a MALD airframe from a cargo aircraft.
MALD is a state-of-the-art, low-cost flight vehicle that is modular, air-launched and programmable. It weighs less than 300 pounds and has a range of approximately 500 nautical miles (about 575 statute miles). The current MALD family includes both the baseline MALD and a stand-in jammer variant called the MALD-J.
"Dispensing the MALD family of weapons from cargo aircraft gives warfighters an important new capability they currently don't have in today's high-threat environment," said Harry Schulte, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems' Air Warfare Systems product line. "MCALS opens the door for the non-traditional use of a high-capacity aircraft to deliver hundreds of MALDs during a single combat sortie."
MCALS has a steel, birdcage-like framework body that can hold as many as eight MALDs. MCALS is loaded on a standard cargo pallet, placed on a transport aircraft, and at a pre-determined altitude rapidly ejects the MALDs, which then initiate a standard wing deployment and engine ignition sequence.
"MCALS is another example of the innovative and affordable technologies Raytheon engineers are developing to support the warfighter," said Bob Francois, vice president of Raytheon Advanced Missiles and Unmanned Systems.
The baseline MALD, which is currently in production, protects aircrew and airborne systems by mimicking the signatures and combat flight profiles of U.S. and allied aircraft. The MALD-J protects aircrew and airborne systems by reducing or eliminating the need for manned stand-in jamming aircraft.
Raytheon Company, with 2010 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 89 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.
http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=irol-newsArticle_pf&id=1567680
el coso naranja que sale por la compuerta, parece una especie de cabeza con ojivas multiples de bajisima firma radar. Y es un arma lanzable desde transportes, lo que los convertiría en una especie de "arma estratégica"... no??
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