Soviet Bloc
21-06-2004, 22:35
C-214 Multi-Mission Transport
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The C-214 MMT (M2T) was designed and produced to replace the aging CL-15 Multi-Mission aircraft in the ARSB Air Force's inventory. The C-214 base aircraft was designed to fulfill the requirements set out for the Future Force Multi Mission Aircraft, set forth by the ARSB's parliament. Those requirements required it to be able to carry at least ninety fully armed and equipped ARSB soldiers with the VEPR systems. The C-214 can carry 120. To fulfill its multi-mission purpose, it was also built to carry massive amounts of cargo, tactical vehicles, and infantry weapons systems, or a combination of both. The C-214 can carry up to two T-05A light paradroppable tanks. And that's what it was designed to do, project ARSB Army power across the globe by delivering either infantry forces, artillery forces, helicopter-borne forces, or airborne armor forces... And it does it well, damn well.
The C-214's other purpose was delivering airborne forces over a target, and it does that with incredible ease, able to deliver two T-05A airdrop-capable tanks as well as thirty infantry in one drop.
Multiple Mission Capability (Modular Design)
The C-214 was built with multiple missions in mind, aside from its vast transport capabilities, it was also built to function as an airborne command aircraft, tanker, electronic warfare, airborne radar, and any other purpose you can dream up, including a launch platform for cruise missiles.
The C-214 was made to be modular, meaning different pieces of equipment (mission specific such as EW systems, command equipment, radar equipment, etc.) can be easily added and taken off with the utmost efficiency. The ARSB likes its aircraft to perform numerous duties in one solid package.
The following are the versions of the basic C-214 cargo airframe (in use by the ARSB but not available for sale, the purchasing nation can modify their's as they see fit)-
KC-224 Tanker Aircraft
CA-234 Command and Control Aircraft
OC-244 Airborne Radar Aircraft
EC-254 Electronic Warfare Aircraft
Engines
The ARSB experimented with numerous engines before finding the perfect engine for this aircraft... The engine was the TR-450-XATP turbo-prop engine designed and manufactured by Tamarov Aircraft Corporation. The engines provide perfect, solid power for the aircraft and are extremely reliable. They were also designed for extended combat stays, so they're easy to maintain in case anything does go wrong with them.
Its four engines can push this amazing aircraft to just over 500 miles per hour.
Survivability
Survivability functions include advanced electronic countermeasures.
Listed below are the countermeasure systems:
The C-214 maintains a single electronic countermeasures system (the AFFC/SIRR-12) which uses a small radar dome underneath the aircraft to locate the incoming radar pulses of a radar-guided missile, it then fires its own radar pulses at a set frequency and size (determined from the missile's radar pulses). This confuses the enemy radar and usually causes it to believe that it has reached its target, it then explodes... The secondary portion of this countermeasures suite is its medium range (40km for this jamming) computer jamming system which can jam radars at their computer core and infrared systems. This usually proves very effective.
Flares- infrared countermeasure (26)
Chaff pods- radar countermeasure (22)
Electrical Disturbance pods- creates a surge of electricity in an area and can mess up a missile's computer (4)
The C-214 also sports an armored cockpit and forward fuselage while also sporting an armored lower fuselage (to protect infantry).
Systems
The C-214 base aircraft is outfitted with an advanced system suite, including the AEISCN system which connects it to the global ARSB defensive/offensive communications net, which allows anything in it to transmit and receive data from any other vehicle, person, or place. Export versions will not have this system.
The C-214 also has an advanced avionics suite from a fly-by-wire system to its satellite-uplink system.
Other Notable Features
The C-214 also maintains an air-refueling probe for receiving fuel while in flight.
The C-214 has four main cargo doors. A large door at the rear, a large door in the nose (the nose lifts up), and two medium cargo doors on the sides of the fuselage, one near the rear on port side, the other towards the front on the starboard. It also maintains four personnel doors, two near the rear (for paratrooper drops) and two near the front.
For adding its modular components, the upper portion of the aircraft, forward of the wing mounts, can open to allow for the crane-assisted drop-in of equipment.
It maintains numerous points of modification, such as removable plates, doors, transport systems, etc. to allow for an easier and more efficient change of roles.
It is very maneuverable in the sky, as well as on the ground... In the sky, she uses numerous control surfaces to give her great maneuverability, especially for a transport of this size. Her maneuverability doesn't stop in the sky, on the ground, of her 24 different load-bearing landing gear axles, eight of them are steerable.
Specifications
Contractor- Dat' Pizdy Design Bureau- Aircraft Division
Length- 196 feet, 4 inches
Height- 39 feet, 3 inches (11.9 meters).
Wingspan- 178 feet
Operating Weight -144,492 lb
Max Takeoff Weight- 343,000 lb
Max Payload- 94,508 lb
Max. Number of Troops carried- 120 fully armed and equipped soldiers
Total Fuel Capacity- 23,592 US gal
Power Plant- Four TR-450-XATP turbo-props
Thrust- 26,250 pounds per engine
Speed- 523 mph
Max Rate of Climb- 2,700 fpm
Ceiling- 49,000 feet
Max Payload Range- 2,500 miles (2,174 nautical miles).
Ferry Range- 5,550 NM
Takeoff Distance- 4,800 ft
Landing Distance- 2,950 ft
Crew- Six (pilot, co-pilot, two loadmasters, and two flight engineers)
Unit Cost $10.2 million
The ARSB currently plans to produce nearly 200 of these aircraft.
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/C-214_Multi-Mission_Cargo_Aircraft.gif
The C-214 MMT (M2T) was designed and produced to replace the aging CL-15 Multi-Mission aircraft in the ARSB Air Force's inventory. The C-214 base aircraft was designed to fulfill the requirements set out for the Future Force Multi Mission Aircraft, set forth by the ARSB's parliament. Those requirements required it to be able to carry at least ninety fully armed and equipped ARSB soldiers with the VEPR systems. The C-214 can carry 120. To fulfill its multi-mission purpose, it was also built to carry massive amounts of cargo, tactical vehicles, and infantry weapons systems, or a combination of both. The C-214 can carry up to two T-05A light paradroppable tanks. And that's what it was designed to do, project ARSB Army power across the globe by delivering either infantry forces, artillery forces, helicopter-borne forces, or airborne armor forces... And it does it well, damn well.
The C-214's other purpose was delivering airborne forces over a target, and it does that with incredible ease, able to deliver two T-05A airdrop-capable tanks as well as thirty infantry in one drop.
Multiple Mission Capability (Modular Design)
The C-214 was built with multiple missions in mind, aside from its vast transport capabilities, it was also built to function as an airborne command aircraft, tanker, electronic warfare, airborne radar, and any other purpose you can dream up, including a launch platform for cruise missiles.
The C-214 was made to be modular, meaning different pieces of equipment (mission specific such as EW systems, command equipment, radar equipment, etc.) can be easily added and taken off with the utmost efficiency. The ARSB likes its aircraft to perform numerous duties in one solid package.
The following are the versions of the basic C-214 cargo airframe (in use by the ARSB but not available for sale, the purchasing nation can modify their's as they see fit)-
KC-224 Tanker Aircraft
CA-234 Command and Control Aircraft
OC-244 Airborne Radar Aircraft
EC-254 Electronic Warfare Aircraft
Engines
The ARSB experimented with numerous engines before finding the perfect engine for this aircraft... The engine was the TR-450-XATP turbo-prop engine designed and manufactured by Tamarov Aircraft Corporation. The engines provide perfect, solid power for the aircraft and are extremely reliable. They were also designed for extended combat stays, so they're easy to maintain in case anything does go wrong with them.
Its four engines can push this amazing aircraft to just over 500 miles per hour.
Survivability
Survivability functions include advanced electronic countermeasures.
Listed below are the countermeasure systems:
The C-214 maintains a single electronic countermeasures system (the AFFC/SIRR-12) which uses a small radar dome underneath the aircraft to locate the incoming radar pulses of a radar-guided missile, it then fires its own radar pulses at a set frequency and size (determined from the missile's radar pulses). This confuses the enemy radar and usually causes it to believe that it has reached its target, it then explodes... The secondary portion of this countermeasures suite is its medium range (40km for this jamming) computer jamming system which can jam radars at their computer core and infrared systems. This usually proves very effective.
Flares- infrared countermeasure (26)
Chaff pods- radar countermeasure (22)
Electrical Disturbance pods- creates a surge of electricity in an area and can mess up a missile's computer (4)
The C-214 also sports an armored cockpit and forward fuselage while also sporting an armored lower fuselage (to protect infantry).
Systems
The C-214 base aircraft is outfitted with an advanced system suite, including the AEISCN system which connects it to the global ARSB defensive/offensive communications net, which allows anything in it to transmit and receive data from any other vehicle, person, or place. Export versions will not have this system.
The C-214 also has an advanced avionics suite from a fly-by-wire system to its satellite-uplink system.
Other Notable Features
The C-214 also maintains an air-refueling probe for receiving fuel while in flight.
The C-214 has four main cargo doors. A large door at the rear, a large door in the nose (the nose lifts up), and two medium cargo doors on the sides of the fuselage, one near the rear on port side, the other towards the front on the starboard. It also maintains four personnel doors, two near the rear (for paratrooper drops) and two near the front.
For adding its modular components, the upper portion of the aircraft, forward of the wing mounts, can open to allow for the crane-assisted drop-in of equipment.
It maintains numerous points of modification, such as removable plates, doors, transport systems, etc. to allow for an easier and more efficient change of roles.
It is very maneuverable in the sky, as well as on the ground... In the sky, she uses numerous control surfaces to give her great maneuverability, especially for a transport of this size. Her maneuverability doesn't stop in the sky, on the ground, of her 24 different load-bearing landing gear axles, eight of them are steerable.
Specifications
Contractor- Dat' Pizdy Design Bureau- Aircraft Division
Length- 196 feet, 4 inches
Height- 39 feet, 3 inches (11.9 meters).
Wingspan- 178 feet
Operating Weight -144,492 lb
Max Takeoff Weight- 343,000 lb
Max Payload- 94,508 lb
Max. Number of Troops carried- 120 fully armed and equipped soldiers
Total Fuel Capacity- 23,592 US gal
Power Plant- Four TR-450-XATP turbo-props
Thrust- 26,250 pounds per engine
Speed- 523 mph
Max Rate of Climb- 2,700 fpm
Ceiling- 49,000 feet
Max Payload Range- 2,500 miles (2,174 nautical miles).
Ferry Range- 5,550 NM
Takeoff Distance- 4,800 ft
Landing Distance- 2,950 ft
Crew- Six (pilot, co-pilot, two loadmasters, and two flight engineers)
Unit Cost $10.2 million
The ARSB currently plans to produce nearly 200 of these aircraft.