View: https://youtu.be/Zj7tjvTPwWI
For some reason YT popped up this vid for me (probably cos I watch historical war stuff), cool design, but also it's kinda funny that YT thinks I'm the audience for this ad, it feels like they are tryin to sell me on this instead of renting a U-Haul lol
It's a well used platform with a very high degree of support, tons of spare parts already on shelves, millions of hours of experience in flying and maintenance. Compared to the V280 mechanically, this is an "I can fix it with a hammer" kind of deal. It's also a heck of a lot cheaper to convert this probably. It's a known factor overall.
It's radio operated wtih GPS and other electronics for nav which means it is very susceptible to jamming and crashing. I would choose a cheap throw-away platform for this, not the most expensive oversized piece of unreliable quasi-still-experimental gear we have around. There's like what, thousands of UH60s you can potentially convert to this? It's a small light transport, you need that in numbers to make sense.
I don't see this as an assault transport or anything of the sort. It will serve as a behind the lines convenience, most likely transporting icecream 90% of the time and used for combat roles probably never. I see this as a logistical support asset where you don't need 3-4 guys per transport plane to get it there and thus be unavailable to you. If you can chain up 5 of these to one command unit and have that one guy "fly" all of them from A to B to get stuff there, I see the use case for it.
