Imran Khan
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I was mixing Re-Arming mid air and Armed Craft for Refueling but the above mentioned Questiones was in my mind because of this->
Whereas aerial refueling increases the range of an aircraft almost indefinitely, bombers still must return to base for rearming as they are limited in the amount of weapons they carry. However, when the target is situated hundreds of miles away from a friendly base, precious time and resources are lost on flights to base for rearming. Furthermore, in some cases the political situation precludes the use of friendly military bases near the operating theater.
To resolve these problems, the Israeli company Far Technologies developed the Airborne Rearming System (ABRA; currently patent pending) in conjunction with the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) engineering group that conducted preliminary system design. The ABRA concept is similar in many respects to airborne refueling, with a number of notable modifications. Far Technologies' system comprises a rearming plane (a C-130, C-130c, C-17, or even a C-5) with an internal bomb storage area and loading device consisting of a large aft door with a modified remote-driven robotic arm (boom) equipped with a day-night camera as well as sensors, and, on the attack aircraft, a special smart pylon to receive the arms from the boom. Each C-130c would be able to carry a payload of up to sixteen 2,000 lb (907 kg) bombs (such as an MK-84), while larger aircraft would easily be able to rearm a full squadron of planes. (A C-17 could potentially carry up to seventy MK-84s and a C-5, around 100.)
http://www.tfot.info/content/view/81...80f2c96c1fd1b7
This is a surprising concept, surprising because no one has come up with it before. I like the idea, and trust the Israelis to come up with something novel and useful, my question is, how likely is this to work. The weight of the robotics would be big enough, let alone the munitions. Besides the obvious danger to both the crew flying the reloader and the Fighter, which is the same for air re-fuelers, would the risk be worth it?
Either way, kool idea
All the bold one i read in an other forum
sir jee CAP missions and other patrolling missions need mid air refueling very badly at war time re arming need less then refueling because they never storm with there weapons blindly sir .they use weapons when its needed but fuel start using when jets still on taxiway . fuel is life and we increase the life a jf-17 can carry 11 bombs or missiles if we use multi hard points and finish of 11 weapons is not so easy .