ADIB: Air Deployment Integrated Bomba (dedicated to Adib, the fireman) by TANAH MELAYU

Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim (Adib) was a Malaysian fireman who died on December 17, 2018 due to injury caused by Hindu extremists while performing his duty 21 days before. To Malaysians, Adib died a national hero.

Adib (Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim)

To remember Adib, TANAH MELAYU is proposing the development of an autonomous fire fighting quadcopter based on a conceptual design called, ADIB or Air Deployment Integrated Bomba ("Bomba" is a Malay word meaning, "fireman").

ADIB viewed horizontally from any direction.

ADIB with the "front propulsion removed" (side view).

ADIB is powered by 4 electric ducted fans, each with contra-rotating 2 propellers providing enough thrust to airborne 1000kg of payloads.

A contra-rotating 2 propellers.

Being a typical quadcopter, ADIB is capable of VTOL (vertical take-off & landing) and horizontal flight at all directions.

Top view of ADIB.

For landing, ADIB uses 4 fixed landing gears with shock-absorbers and spherical wheels. The lower part of its 4 doors double as foldable planks, so that wheeled payloads can be wheeled down or up ADIB. The upper part of its doors double as windows when closed.

ADIB landed (side view).

ADIB as Air Ambulance and Airborne Medical Operation Theater

ADIB can accommodate 3 beds with a medical crew and onboard medical equipment to function as air ambulance or 2 beds with 2 medical crews and onboard medical operation equipment to function as airborne medical operation theater.

ADIB carrying 3 beds with onboard medical equipment, functioning as air ambulance (top view).

ADIB carrying 2 beds with onboard emergency medical operation equipment, functioning as airborne medical operation theater (top view).

ADIB as Airborne Fire Fighting and Search & Rescue Platform

When not functioning as air ambulance, ADIB functions as airborne fire fighting platform. In this mode, the quadcopter carries water tanks instead of beds and medical equipment. Water is pumped up into the tanks from a source directly below ADIB using a telescopic inflow tube equipped with a pump. The water source can be a lake, a river or a pond. To ensure no solid materials are pumped up with the water, the pump at the end of the inflow tube is equipped with filter. After the tanks are full, the water can be shot at targets on fire using a water cannon. There is also a door on the floor, where a rope ladder can be extended from. Crews can climb down and emergency victims can climb up ADIB using the rope ladder. So, besides being air ambulance, airborne medical operation theater and airborne fire fighting platform, ADIB also serves as airborne search and rescue missions platform.

ADIB in fire fighting & rescue mode.

ADIB with ADEB (Air Drop Extinguishing Bomb)

To further enhance the effectiveness of ADIB as airborne fire fighting platform, ADIB can carry ADEBs (Air Drop Extinguishing Bomb)s. ADEBs are fitted in 4 magazines with each magazine accommodates 2 rows of 5 ADEBs, enabling each ADIB carries a total of 40 ADEBs. These magazines are installed vertically inside the fuselage. The bombs will be dropped directly from above the targets on fire. 

ADIB with ADEB.

Multiple variants of ADIB can be produced including for civilian (ADIB-C) and military (ADIB-M) tactical air mobility and transportation. Therefore, private agencies and Malaysian Ministry of Defense may also invest in the development of ADIB respectively.

ADIB-C (ADIB for Civilian Tactical Air Mobility)

ADIB-C can carry 12 people or 1000kg of commercial cargoes & will be very effective for mass tactical air mobility and cargo transportation in the cities.

ADIB-C with 12-seat configuration, where the circular bench accommodates 4 seats and the 4 curved benches each accommodate 2 seats. Each individual seat has its own safety belt.

ADIB-M (ADIB for Military Tactical Air Mobility)

ADIB-M will be effective as transporter & gunship. This model carries with a rotatable turret with twin electric rotating guns.

ADIB-M with rotatable hard points for launching air-to-ground missiles.

The other interesting possible variant of ADIB is ADIB-LV (ADIB as Launch Vehicle), the ADIB designed to function as launch vehicle with fully reusable quadcopter as its 1st stage. ADIB-LV will be able to launch suborbital payloads including sounding rocket and human passenger, enabling it to serve suborbital flights.

Diagram Under Construction

ADIB-LV

Further development of ADIB-LV will produce ADIB-LVM (ADIB as Military Launch Vehicle), which will function as a airborne mobile medium distance surface-to-surface missile system, with quadcopter launch platform. Such airborne mobility will be unique advantage for the missile system.

Diagram Under Construction

ADIB-LVM

Further studies on ADIB can be conducted if there is an interest to realize the concept.

A CFD (computational fluid dynamic) simulation of quadcopter.

A CFD (computational fluid dynamic) simulation of contra-rotating multiple propellers.

Comparable Platform

A comparable platform to ADIB is Airbus H125 helicopter which has the empty weight of 1174kg and maximum take-off weight of 2250kg, while ADIB's empty weight and maximum take-off weight are 1000kg and 2000kg respectively. However due to ADIB being a quadcopter, while H125 is a helicopter, ADIB has larger cabin and can carry more than twice the number of passengers and also can be produced in many more variants than H125 does.

Although ADIB can carry more than twice the number of passengers than H125 does, ADIB is smaller than H125. In length, ADIB is less than half the length of H125.

Size comparison between ADIB and H125.

Comparing the maintenance between ADIB to a helicopter like H125 is like comparing the maintenance of a 1000cc compact car with a superbike of the same engine capacity. Although the car can carry more passengers and payloads than the bike does, and the car has 4 wheels, while the bike has only 2 wheels, the maintenance of the car is simpler and cheaper than that of the bike.

This proposal by TANAH MELAYU is dedicated to Adib, the fireman, and the Malaysian government. The Malaysian Fire & Rescue Department and Malaysian Defense Ministry are proposed to develop ADIB, while private agencies operating in mass transportation and tactical cargo delivery are proposed to commercially invest in the development of ADIB, the Air Deployment Integrated Bomba or Bomba Integrasi Penghantaran Udara.

About TANAH MELAYU

TANAH MELAYU is an "opened group" FB (facebook) page concerning the history, politics and science related to the Malay people, with postings restricted on the 3 subjects by group members. The progress on the development of ADIB is regularly being reported within the group, as ADIB is officially a project by TANAH MELAYU.