Airbus A400M presentation

[planecrazy101ya]

Copy of a c-17... how sad.

[Alextelportable]

Yes "defensive AIDS" !

With an A400M you are safe withe the SIDA.

But it's not easy to put it on the....

I love the music !

PS : I'm french :D

[kleinesmaenchen]

imagine a mass skydive out of this thing :D

[kleinesmaenchen]

DEFENSIVE aids ??? :o

[FsxViper]

@VashReckless Whats wrong with Britain were amazing, we have the best everything. If you've ever been to Britain you'll know we don't speak in that stupid accent you say we do. I HATE tea

[montbard]

Peace keeping operatiom my ass!! lololol

By th eway, this is a grat bird. I have the Wilco A400M simulator. It´s awesome to "fly" with.

[comlien]

Fuck anything military! Fuck war!

[comlien]

@VashReckless War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength

[VashReckless]

@comlien The Party? I assume your from Britain?

[davetileguy]

@comlien ya just sit there and be taken!! like France and Czech and Kuwait ,where do you live? I'm commin over to take all your stuff cause I know you'll just sit there!!!! LMFAO !!

[tspcrowther]

ok, cool. I`ll have one. 

[RomaniaTricolor]

So,from this presentation, I guess A400M is also built to fly with turbofan engines too!

[Antarktida1337]

@RomaniaTricolor and u guess right ;)

[markhera1]

AN-70 ist besser und günstiger, ist halt Original. Die Russen können besser!!!

[yepgugusss]

The plane is nice, but the could have been better

Is it the officiel one ?

[Ivanlamperouge]

A very nice plane. They should also put some features in commercial jet

[falconxlc]

i hate this music

[oceanr325]

Wow, you can do all this and more with less cost and proven reliability with your standard C-130, EADS is trying to either catch up, or copy.

[aerexenn11]

better trying than never.

[blablubb12345]

@oceanr325

The C130 has nowhere near the capabilities of the A400m.

[oceanr325]

@blablubb12345 Ok, like what?

[blablubb12345]

@oceanr325

Payload, speed, avionics, range (with reduced payload), can be equipped with MedEvac units.

[terragona1]

es la copia mejorada del hercules

[SuperJulio68]

it has nothing to do with the french (eurofighter is not french)

It's because there is a cooperation of many countries and huge projetcs like this are offen late

[paulabo123]

No project with the french are good. every project ist to late eurocopter, eurofighter, airbus or even new power plants with alstom suck

[ronjhe]

Maybe you have to read the history of the C-17...It was full of problems, did take much more time and they had to accept that some capacities were not fullfiled by the aircraft..so....

[bluepanther1011]

Jeez Airbus is making all the big planes. The A400m, Airbus Belugah, A340, A380, A330.

[TuAFFalcon]

WE CAN WAIT A LIL LONGER! Because its going to be worth it.

[larrysaul]

years overdue, billions over cost, nothing but an animation. The poor European taxpayer!

[neophyte777]

@larrysaul

True but lots of defence projects have troubles, JSF for example

[TuAFFalcon]

Na man its nearly operational sorta. Once its up it will be a very capable aircraft.

[braorius]

@TuAFFalcon: yeah, really capable to face threats that no longer exists,just like f22...does it worth it?At least the a 400 will fit in actual and next conflicts.

[TuAFFalcon]

I said SORTA! No need for the thumbs down you mofo. If you have a problem with the aircraft then fuck off and keep flying your 50 yr old Hercules. Jealous kents... Country cant afford it so you decide to bitch about it instead. This shits all over even the new C-130J's.

[TheJasperkitty]

Carries 30 tons of white surrender flags!

[godofbw]

looks like a crappy C-17

[Efteling4Ever]

Yeah? Did you notice a "crappy" Lockheed P-38 Lightning looks like a Fokker GI, that every "crappy" American stealth delta wing jet looks like a Gotha 229?` etc. etc. So point being? It's about technology and price, not appearance.

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions about psychology:

(1) Why do we love flying?

(2) Why do we always want to build new aeroplanes?

(3) Why do we think that working together is so improtant for building and designing an aeroplane?

(4) Why does a culture of diversity so important for the designing process of new aeroplane?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[95predator]

combined with a few casas and antonov124 its optimal.

[Stingerfyle]

Great, another instrument of war!! 5 stars!!!

[95predator]

you know that the "bad armys of europe which only make war and kill" help people in afghanistan and in africa, transalls are borrowed to charity organisations, idiot!

[Stingerfyle]

I just think that this war is a never ending think and that a promotion with great military planes will just prolong the american try to pump their values and rights in a completely different culture, mr Predator (your nick says enough)

[azandhind4eva]

shez a b-e-a-uty

[applesweeter]

What is the progam/movie maker for making this presentation?

Please tell me. :)

[787dreamlinerBoeing]

looks like "Windows movie maker" but I'm not sure...

[CusterFlux]

It's a law - all military gear promo videos must have a cheesy MIDI sound track OR, very bad metal.

[mySoulInYou]

q lindo avion,se volvio al diseño d las helices,pero.. alguien me puede explicar xq usan helices y no turbinas??^^

[SoyunSerSuperior]

en realidad son turbinas, son turbofans (turbo-hélices). Montar hélices en turbinas permite una mayor potencia pero menor velocidad de crucero y éste tipo de aviones necesita potencia más que velocidad. Además estos motores turbo-helice son los más potentes del mundo, cada uno de 10000 caballos.

[neretita]

si que lleva carga,que pasada.

[edgehogR]

OMG i cant wait to see it actually flying, man, i cant imagine if they make an air support variant like the AC130 gunship, imagine the amount of fire power it could unleash with its current payload capability...oh man oh man

[deadbeat78]

You scare me!

[siliconaconcarne]

CONFIRMED FIRST FLIGHT: 11-DEC-2009

[CJCA915]

I didn't know this was an Airbus aircaft, I never thought they could develop such an aircraft.

Looks like a mesh between a Lockheed C130J, and the C-17 Globemaster III.

[osterglocke]

EADS as always too late,too expensiv

Is only flying as Computer animation

[kirkjamestkirk]

Don't forget to mention Boeing Deamliner. Still Waiting for its maiden flight.

[95predator]

shit plane, make it for ready for 65 tonnes!

we have already the transall!

[patxizurru]

have you heard about obsolescence??

[95predator]

yes... but what about the casas?

but okay it would be possible to develop a 30t +additional armor mbt, im convinced.

[slowesttooth]

Gotta love the 80's elevator music!

[flexi712]

@slowesttooth

Dude, that's how you know it's a French production. It's like a trademark.

[leighsm]

If you want a real screw up get us Europeans to build it. What a complete and utter mess. By the time this tub actually works it will cost 150 m per unit at least. TOTAL waste of money and time.

[ipbalkenende]

How is that any different from any American aviation program the last 3 decades? I mean the f-22 and B-2 are pretty much textbook examples.

[juuls26]

Well its creates jobs at least plus the American have had programs with shitloads of problems too. Futhermore if you create your own military hardware you are more free to operate, since otherwise you could be cut off with spareparts.

[LTF85199]

Is the propulsion "PROP-FAN" technology?

[Thorgils95]

this plane will do what the hercules can't do like airborne a complete mechanised unit by example with all CV90 version include 120 tank instead of MBT (you need c17 to airborn MBT), nh90 helicopters and british apache longbow (more powerfull than the US and the tiger) ..etc..for gunship it 's better to wait the V44, a quad tilt rotor. type V44, there's a video.

[MokomaSusi]

"CV90 version include 120 tank instead of MBT (you need c17 to airborn MBT)"

Of course C17 is needed to carry real tank. CV90 is not an tank but IFV what weight around 30 tons.

[dave4shmups]

Looks awesome, but I wonder if a gunship version is in the works? That's definitely something they'd need to outpace the Hercules.

[yusa40]

turkiey makes some parts of it.

[federalfsx]

DEFENSIVE AIDS OMG!

[Jimderkaisser]

I can beleive my country (canada) purschase C-130J "Super Hercule"...we need strategic and tactic airlift and the A400M can doing the same thing like the C-17 (strategic) and same from C-130J (tactical) in one for cheaper price than the C-17 and new aircraft with awesome 10,000 HP engine ,that made this aircraft awesome much more than a 40years old aircraft who can't doing go job for tactical airlift (C-130J ,about the quality/price this aircraft sucks).

[MokomaSusi]

Well, now they are saying that A400M "may need massive re-engineering work to achieve its performance targets." and it's already three years late. So C-130J is not that bad choice.

[Jimderkaisser]

Well i prefer waiting three years than buying a old aircraft with few modernization such the engine and the flight control computer and the HUD.

[LuisRodrigues1990]

Very Nice Aircraft

[snipermovie07]

the next plane for the belgian airforce!

[SlyManPX]

One really capable aircraft in a rather interesing vid.

[terrasidius]

that looks awesome. :)

[thomsonfly645k]

at 00.26 are they firing at the A400M ?

[germansascha]

Some european countries already fly the C-130J's.And some older models. Also we fly the C-160.The RAF flies the C-17. But I dont think that the US would ever buy A400's.

[germansascha]

irrelevant comparsions? I dont think so!

[tangara45]

It's entirely irrelevant. The A400M is a good enough plane to stand on its own, and fills a different niche than the C-130J; the comparisons above are no different than someone lining up the A400M's stats against the C-17s.

Oh, 140 million euro for a C-17, 100 million euro for an A400M, and 45 million euro for a C-130J. Europe should push strongly for the U.S. to buy a few A400M's in reciprocation for a NATO purchase of C-130J's.

[germansascha]

A400 is ways better than the C-130J!! A400 Payload: 82,000lb C-130J payload: 42,000lb ------------------------ A400 Range: 5,022nmi C-130J range: 2,835nmi ------------------------ The Max Takeoff Weight for the C-130J is 70.3tons. The A400's Weight (empty) 70.0tons. A400's Max Takeoff weight: 141.0tons. I cant wait to see the Cockpit of the A400! Way to go Europe!!!

[tangara45]

Way to post irrelevant comparisons. Apples & Oranges.

[juuls26]

nothing like a sour loser...

[alfaclass1]

what else would nato have purchased? this plane as with all bloody european aircraft projects is so late the raf will prob have to lease more c130s to fill the gap, thats if this new all singing all dancing plane does what airbus say it will. the us produce top class transporters, why should they waste thier time with a euro box that cant even fly yet. Long live the c130!!

[DeBurgemeester]

every new aircraft runs into major delays these days... the JSF, etc...

[wenjie639]

well... the 787 still can't fly YET...

[chaingang90]

um.... cost and maintenance cost???? not being biased to one side, just curious....

[cuttingwoodnow]

The A400M went roll-out today! June 26, 2008 I saw a picture of A400M is very cool.

[CuppaAvenger]

Looks like a C-130J meets a C-17

[IDRJohorProperty]

congratulations ! Malaysia future military aircraft :)

[Donz5885]

Yeah and I will be the one of the first Malaysian to see it because my house just near the Alor Star Airport.

[Collectionneur11]

1 A400M à le double de la capacité des Hercules dont la conception de base remonte à 50 ans. L'USAF, aprés avoir choisi le ravitailleur Airbus devrait en commander quelqu'uns :) Les Strykers rentreront dans cette avion sans étre démonté comme pour l'Hercules.

[fishchipsmushypeas]

Europe is considering Commercialising its logistics for its millitary/Peace keeping operations. Look on the European Defence Agency website. `Commecialising logistics`. You dont always need to use millitary transport. You can make good use of private companys to ferry millitary equipment around. Like companys that operate Antonovs.

[Donz5885]

Airbus A400M will be more easier to fly compare C-130 still using old Avionics.

[lolo2659]

A400M,

Germany: 60

France: 50

spain: 27

UK: 25

turkey: 10

south africa: 8

belgium: 7

MALAYSIA: 4

luxembourg:1

[vonser360]

I'll like the A400M, but, I'm still GO for the C-130 ,why? because it's the Only transport plane available to my Country's Air Force, The A400M is just a dream for us cause it will pump funds before we can get it.

[Antiworld23]

Europe still wasting billons of taxpayer dollars to reinvent the C-130? Give me a break this thing just like the A380 is over budget and behind schedule but no matter since the euro socialists will keep pumping money into airbus.

[Donz5885]

Oh please, I enter cockpit C-130 once and found out that it wasn't a glass cockpit aircraft at all after some major modification. Airbus A400M is more than C-130. It has glass cockpit, more range, less fuel consume than C-130, more payload and more function. It is time to look forward not backward.

[Antiworld23]

The USAF and RAF use the C-130J and C-17 duo. The C-130J does infact have a glass cockpit, it is the latest development of the classic C-130. The C-130J is for intra-theater operations and the C-17 is inter-theater. This A400M isn't about "looking to the future" it's about trying to compete with US companies.

[smartbotX]

these planes are no good ,they made it for war use ,not nice,commercial aircrafts are better ,they should make a commercial aircraft instead

[FuliginNights]

airbus already makes commercial planes...

some of the comments here... duuuuuuuuuh doooouuuh.

[cuttingwoodnow]

USAF world buy A400M to replace old C-130s in future!

[Antiworld23]

No way in hell the USAF would switch from a domestically manufactured aircraft to a foreign one. Besides, the C-130J is replacing the older C-130s.

[cuttingwoodnow]

The C-130J are still old design and small number in USAF. How did USAF are buying Airbus KC-30 base on A330 are foreign airplane and the air force one are also buying Airbus A380-800 to replane old B747..

[Antiworld23]

No they are not. The USAF is going to use the Boeing KC-767 for a tanker to replace older KC-135s. And no, the USAF is not seriously considering the A380 to replace it's 747s.

The C-130Js are brand new. The overall airframe desgin is the same with a few modifications but so what new doesn't always mean better. The old USS Enterprise is far better than the new French carrier Charles du Gaulle.

[fishchipsmushypeas]

Would the US call a NATO allies foreign. Germany doesnt mind having C5 Galaxys on its soil. Im sure the US wouldnt mind having a few A400Ms built by one of its allies. Any other non-NATO nation I would call foreign.

[MidniteCM]

Wow looks like a C-130 got lucky with a C-17 and the A400M was born. Its a good replacement for the C-130. Sucks that USA wont buy it because it can't lift an M1 tank like the C-17. I say turn it into a gunship lol.

[mikhailM4]

I'm sure looking forward to it coming into active service

[supermaskass]

J'ai cette video sur mon Ordi

[ELi102487]

sweet

[denverbroncosrock07]

And no it doesnt look like the c17, the c17 is jet, this is turboprop, and its a competetor, and its quieter, if i was in charge of an air force organisation when it comes to cargo. id go airbus. and its funny how some of the airbus haters come on airbus videos and start badmouthing them, wow, pathetic attempt to make airbus look bad, they shuld get a life, yet itd be hard for them cuz of their anti-european ignorance.

[denverbroncosrock07]

Airbus have style, theyre awsome, shame everyones attacking them about the a380, same thing happened to boeing about the 747, jesus not only that airbus and boeing r practically the same just airbus has better space and seats. GO AIRBUS!

[bassbonebobo]

Congrats Airbust. Welcome to 1952.

[Streamenterers]

It will be the work horse of the ESDP ( European Security and Defence Policy ), with a few given to nato to stop them from complaining, and feeling left out, LOL. It will ferry the EU battlegroups to crises hotspots around the world. A European piece of equipment, ending reliance on the American crap. Its an excellent aircraft. There will be a European Heavy lift Helicopter being designed by France and germany ( European Defence Agency website.

[grendelreaper]

I cn't comment for the French or German's but I can't believe the R.A.F. are still going to buy this, for the same money as the A400 m buy we could have got twenty C-17's, twice the lift capacity and some true global reach, the only reason is political, keeping BAE in money, while denying the air force the best equipment.

[endrelunde]

It is hardly a rework of the C-130... 37 tons of payload, that is a completely different ballgame

[roadcheesecalls]

that was great, now i want one. awesome new rework of the C-130 Hercules concept with a C-5 Galaxy tail

[inserat]

letala

[Bisonpoilu]

j'aime beaucoup la musique ;)

[flyer37]

Thanks for posting. Great vid!