Cargo aircraft purposed as Bombers

[Bhurki]

AFRL Moves To Equip Cargo Planes With Bombs In a Box

AFRL Moves To Equip Cargo Planes With Bombs In a Box - Breaking Defense

WASHINGTON: With its latest contract to Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has taken another step in its effort to rapidly develop a capability to drop bombs and launch cruise missiles to augment the shrinking fleet of long-range bombers. The Other Transaction Authority...

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Lockheed Martin’s roll-on/roll-off pallet can carry up to 32 AGM-158B JASSM-ER (Joint-Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range) missiles on a C-17, Scott Calloway, program director at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, told reporters today.

 

[riggerrob]

KC-? airplanes will be great when they enjoy air-superiority (e.g. over a tin-pot dictator), but will fail miserably when facing peer air forces.

 

[TomcatViP]

It's easier to have range with a CM than a SAM. The concept is then valid on the strategic level.
Try also to visualize the game changing effect of hundreds of added long range weapons closing on your opponents.