Military transport aircraft - a transport aircraft designed to deliver troops , weapons and other military equipment .
Usually able to operate at unprepared airfields . Appeared as adapted bombers during World War II .
Such aircraft in construction have specialized military equipment (individually or in combination): sighting and navigation equipment or navigation equipment that displays the aircraft at a “tactical point” for (air) discharge of cargo and landing ; weapons; equipment to help transport personnel and military equipment; specialized aerial photography equipment; specialized sights (bomber or collimator sights); thermal imagers and other military specialized equipment.
There are multi-purpose military transport aircraft, for example, within the framework of the pan-European MRTT program ( Multi Role Tanker Transport ), work is underway to create promising multi-purpose transport and refueling aircraft based on Airbus A330 and A330 wide-body airliners - Airbus A330 MRTT . Also, the aircraft manufacturer Airbus Military created a single European military transport aircraft Airbus A400M Atlas [1] .
Airbus A330 MRTT
Airbus A400M Atlas
Transport aircraft on the civil registry are civil transport aircraft. Such aircraft can also be used to transport military goods, but they are not military transport aircraft, as they are in the register of civilian ships .
See also
- Military transport aircraft
Notes
- ↑ Sytin L. E. The most modern weapons and military equipment. - M .: AST, 2017 .-- 656 p. - ISBN 978-5-17-090382-5 .