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Originally Posted by parihaka
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I agree. It sounds like the German WW-2 Me321 Gigant transport glider and it's six-engined upgrade, the Me323 Gigant. It was huge(for it's time) and made a perfect target. The Me321 glider had to be towed by 3 Me110 fighters. Once, 14 Me323s(which was an Me321 with 6 engines bolted on) carrying fuel supplies and their fighter escort Fw190 and Me109s were attacked by a swarm of Spitfires and P-40s, and all 14 were lost, along with 120 crew and 700 drums of fuel onboard.
It's like putting a super-sized Zeppelin, which sucked against WW1 fighters, in a modern-day scenario. Unless they find a way to make it stealthy(something blimps are not) and heavily armored(which will need a LOT of extra power), without making it too heavy, it doesn't sound too good to me.