Boeing and Airbus did it. The largest aircraft in the world.
HASF operated 40 of these ultra-heavy transports in 2054.
1 AIRCRAFT
Purpose[]
The C-38 is designed to take up the logistics section of HASF, delivering men, machines, munitions, fuel and food to any location on earth.
Capacity[]
In cargo transport mode, the C-38 can be filled up with 320 tons of it, which can be eight HMCPs or one thousand soldiers. In air-to-air refueling mode, it can house 300 tons of Hydrogen aviation fuel to distribute to aircraft via three independent refueling booms.
Sensors[]
Commercial navigation radar plus IFF interrogator.
Anti-Surface Weaponry[]
N/A
Anti-Aircraft Weaponry[]
N/A
Anti-Submarine Weaponry[]
N/A
Upgrades[]
Protection[]
A-THEL[]
To make sure the shipment survives the flight, the C-38 can be equipped with a belly-mounted retractable A-THEL to fry a missile out of the air at 1.5 kilometers. Clear skies are required.
Protection[]
Passive[]
The C-38 has a lowly Aluminum skin to keep air and all forms of water out of the aircraft.
Active[]
Superbands have a basic ECM suite to ward off missile attacks.
Locomotion[]
This is where the C-38 is truly a breakthrough- the C-38's hull is shaped to create natural lift, and it is nuclear powered. Yes, nuclear powered. After getting into the air via four Rolls Royce Trent XMW-H10 Hydrogen-powered turbofan engines capable of producing 100,000lb of thrust at maximum capacity, it switches to four sets of counter-rotating propellers shrouded inside two separate ducts. Powered by nuclear energy, the motors there can insure that the aircraft stays at a steady 400 mph as it flies anywhere in the world. A miniature LTFR powers each set of propellers.