This has and always was separate to NMH, these FOST helicopters are owned by a contractor, like the aggressor aircraft we also have on contract. Completely unrelated to NMH. Yes, but with the MoD stating what aircraft they would prefer, there has to be a link in their thinking. At least, I hope som...

Interesting post from Gabriel, is this a sign that the AW149 has won NMH (as we all expected it probably would) or if something else wins, is it a sign that the MoD is going to add yet another type to the inventory instead of using some joined-up thinking (and we all probably expect this too :lol: )...

Been taking flak?

https://x.com/Gabriel64869839/status/17 ... 86209?s=20

Aw609 fuselage is not sized to be of any use as a military platform. You might as well start from scratch.

Nice clip of a Tonka firing off a few back in '05...

https://x.com/RealAirPower1/status/1726 ... 02932?s=20

Airbus missed a trick there, when the Nimrod MRA4 was canned in 2010, Airbus should have jumped in and offered to fund putting all the Nimrod's tech on the A320 (obviously there would have been airframe issues to work through, but better than starting from scratch). It would have been more Euro-frie...

Could it be that the Germans have had enough of the French?

Where will NATO and the US by sourcing their bbj's?

The problem is V280 and all its fancy tech is still years from service with the US, never mind for export countries. It's certainly something to look at in the 2035 timeframe, that's for sure. My apologies, that is what i meant when i said long term, I should have been clearer. I could see us getti...

If V-280 is the long term goal, shouldn't we be hearing about tie ups with UK companies by now?


More Chinooks? Do we really need any more?

Airbus promo video...

Questions needing to be answered, can it take typical non critical LZ bullet hole damage, be immediately patched up and back into service, or not? Is it capable of maritime deployment and use in reasonably high sea states? Those 2 questions would be very relevant if the timeline was different and w...

mrclark303 wrote: ↑12 Nov 2023, 04:09 Alternatively, just save money, go bigger, buy 60 + UH60's and replace the Army Wildcat with that too...

*cough* AW149 *cough*...

The H160 sounds like the helicopter the AAC should have got instead of the Wildcat. Double the troop lift and I'll bet half the cost of Wildcat. You've been banging on for ages that we shouldn't get the AW149 or H175m because they're civilian aircraft, but we should have had the H160 (civilian airc...

new guy wrote: ↑10 Nov 2023, 16:05 Don't we have a bunch of H135's sitting in a hanger rotting as gazelle replacements?

I was just going to ask this!?!

I think we need a clear-out of Whitehall, my Nan could do a better job of it and she's been dead for 25 years!!!

SW1 wrote: ↑30 Oct 2023, 10:34 Should of stuck with lynx in the role

As an Aside, the AH.7 had a cool look to it

Based on one government after another doing their best to destroy anything and everything

The Queen visited in her S-76 as well didn't she?

Saw a tweet earlier from somebody or other (not really important), the US is stopping the export of small arms and ammunition to stockpile in case ww3 kicks off. That's the smallest and simplest weapons to produce, do you think they'll be that worried about us while they get there stocks of JAGM up?...

Anyone who's moaned about the L85's bayonet. I have some bad news for you

As a quick addition to my last...

The deal for the AGM-179's hasn't been approved by the Yanks yet. Is there anything stopping us from cancelling and getting Brimstone Quallied instead?

*Other than political will

And with impeccable timing, this pops up in the Torygraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/26/us-army-apache-british-defence-military-procure-helicopter/ An article full of twaddle from start to finish. One wonders if these things are just done for clicks in the paper. Not all twaddle ( tho...

Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑25 Oct 2023, 01:35 If the SF Chinook order has been scaled back to boost NMH numbers the next question will be what to do with all those Army Wildcats where the crossover will be huge.

12 refitted to HMA.2, the rest used in a MH-6 Little Bird style role (forward firing M134 mini guns etc)

And off they go...

https://x.com/ArmyAirCorps/status/17164 ... 49782?s=20

SD67 wrote: ↑20 Oct 2023, 17:58 Please stay away HM Treasury, nothing to see here....that? that's actually not a warplane it is a prototype thermal management system, part of the Net Zero pathway, uses synthetic fuel....

And it hugs lgbtqvxyz's... Yes, anyone with purple hair...