Paint Job On Kazakhstan’s New A400M Looks Like A Plane In A Bond Film

If an article says something looks like something else, shouldn't they show us the something else???

Great photo, Always loved the a400s

Paint weight may be an issue. But it's their airplane. If they wanted to add 'Coon tails', curb feelers,and 'Moon' hubcaps, it's their business, right?
I think it looks fine.

It's basically just another gray airplane.

Except for the lighter gray and high gloss finish, pretty much the same as every other A400, C-130, C-17. But, yeah - shiny!

Putin probably offered to paint it.

Curious how much the paint job weights and affects overall fuel consumption v’s just a little bit of livery and tags.

A4000M looks to me a looking paint job.

Painted by Borat?

"Kazakhstan, the greatest country in the world, all other countries, are run by little girls!"

How does a plane with desert type camouflage look like one in greys?

It's an air force plane, so those paint jobs aren't special.

300 to 500 pounds or so for a commercial plane. 6 figure dollars to do it. A decrease in revenue capacity with a full body coverage paint scheme.

@Chris Bryant: they provided a link to the "something" in the text "gives off a similar vibe".
https://youtu.be/pUrMrwAMhIs?t=87

User MH370 is quite pathetic.

Blame it on DEI, right, Billyboy?

Let us remind ourselves that Kazakhstan is an individual sovereign country and not under the influence of Russia.
As somebody who has worked there regularly, I can say they watch Russian TV, they all speak Russian, they drive Russian Trucks, Pick-Ups and cars. Their service in Hotels and Restaurants etc is ....... how shall we say ........... Russian, AND 50%+ of houses do not have internal bathrooms/WCs .....!!

Also everywhere you see hoardings with, in Latin and Cyrillic script, '2030' --- and that is because their former beloved leader promised them that by 2030, they will be ready to join the 'EU' .......
It seems, perhaps to curry favour, that they are already buying military aircraft from the EU ...
Good Luck to them, as I hear the UK RAF models of the A400M, can be best described as 'Rust Buckets'