Title: Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS)
KORNET-E - September 8, 2007 12:08 PM (GMT)
Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS)
A MAFFS unit is a pressurized 3,000-gallon tank installed on a military Lockheed C-130 cargo/utility aircraft. Retardant or water is dropped out of the tank in under five seconds through two tubes at the rear of the plane. This load can cover one quarter of a mile long and 60 feet wide to act as a fire barrier. The objective of the MAFFS program is to provide emergency capability to supplement the existing commercial airtanker support on wildland fires.
Why didnīt the Greek goverment approve this system back in 1993?
I've scanned this picture from Defence Matters edition 82 February 1993
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A MAFFS unit is a pressurized 3,000-gallon tank installed on a military Lockheed C-130 cargo/utility aircraft. Retardant or water is dropped out of the tank in under five seconds through two tubes at the rear of the plane. This load can cover one quarter of a mile long and 60 feet wide to act as a fire barrier. The objective of the MAFFS program is to provide emergency capability to supplement the existing commercial airtanker support on wildland fires.
Why didnīt the Greek goverment approve this system back in 1993?
I've scanned this picture from Defence Matters edition 82 February 1993
-REST IN PIECES-
Thermopyles - September 8, 2007 06:09 PM (GMT)
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| Why didnīt the Greek goverment approve this system back in 1993? |
Perhaps because they had something to gain from the fires? :doubt:
KORNET-E - September 9, 2007 02:27 PM (GMT)
Exactly!
MAFFS unit is loaded into a C-130
MAFFS unit is loaded into a C-130
D.E.A - September 9, 2007 09:27 PM (GMT)
Are they at least,now going to acquire a similar system ?