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Airborne Warfare: C-27J STOL 200 Foot Short Field Landing!

LTG Gavin and other U.S. Airborne pioneers concluded in 1947 that we needed a "cow pasture" landing and take-off capable fixed-wing troop/tank transport: http://www.combatreform.com/airbornewarfare.htm As great as the piston-engined Caribou was, it lacked the power to carry light tanks but could land and take-off troops and small recon vehicles as long as the surface was flat enough for wheeled landing gear. The U.S. Army now has the C-27J Spartan propfan turbine-engined transport that can transport troops and light tanks after all these years: http://www.c27j.com In this video, the C-27J touches down on a hard runway simulating what could be a stretch of road or a small strip in the center of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) and then stopping in what looks to be only several hundred feet. If the C-27J had troops, a M113 Gavin light tank/APC or 463L pallets, it could ERO them onto the end of the runway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNSQSFvGQ5k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wssV_bVK_wU still facing into the wind and still have enough runway left in front of it to take-off. Another option would be as soon as the cargo clears behind it, using its props in thrust reverse mode to back-up all the way to the runway beginning edge and then take-off. All of this could be taking place between stacked ISO shipping containers filled with dirt to form protective walls creating an end-of-the-runway loading/off-loading area same from enemy direct-fire: http://www.combatreform.com/battleboxes.htm This way, we'll not repeat the mistakes the usmc aviators made at Khe Sanh FOB ever again when they landed bloated aircraft onto exposed areas and were exploded by enemy long-range tube and rocket artillery. Non-linear warfare requires NON-LINEAR logistics and the C-27J gets the job done. Want to know more about 3D Airborne Maneuver Warfare? Our book, "Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century" is ONLINE for FREE skyjacked by Google! http://books.google.com/books?id=RCWtHnYZ0LMC&pg