You could do a month away with a Sqn, come back do a 2 week exercise on the plain then go away for 4-6 month on a full operational tour come back and be away again in less than a month for a 2 week exercise and so on. The Radar does not actually weigh much; and has overland modes.Don’t need a turret to shoot at the IRGC Boghammers, just take a redundant 27mm Mauser from a redundant Tornado, stick it in a fixed forward mount on the side of the cabin, with the ammo fed from inside, et voila…..Ahh well that’s lovely Jed suppose I’ve taken an actual disliking to NH90 after doing some digging into it and also have some niggles with the much mentioned AW149 :)I can see the logic in having them all fitted with radar and eerily enough I have the Seaspray 7000E PDF open atm as I was having a look at it just out of curiosity :|it weighs 80kg so carrying it around is ok. Support Amphibious Battlefield Rotorcraft, which may lead to more EH101 systems.

X, there is a fair list of military kit to add that really is not optional these days such as radar and laser warning receivers along with the normal package of flares and chaff add to that a DIRCM system, night vision compatible cockpits and lighting etc etc etc. Basic requirements were for a helicopter that Now about the future of the CHF well if there was a strategy and that strategy said the CHF will be merged with the AAC and all helicopters operated by them will be marinised for use at sea then i could live with it.

Wildcat and Merlin (mk3 only) are not good battlefield helicopters, the Merlin is a good heli-liner and nothing else (apart from naval versions)”I sometimes wonder whether the Merlin airframe would make a good heavy gunship.How about going the other way too – take an Apache airframe but build a light helicopter out of it of a size similar to the Lynx.

In my view it has to be designed from the outset for military use.

That for the Merlin and Chinook are definitely maximum continuous rating, not so sure about the others.As you can see data points for various aircraft are empty, because my quick Saturday afternoon search could not find the information – if you have it, or know a source, please let us know in the comments and we can amend the tableOf course nothing is ever simple, and a lot of the conversations have been based around troop lift capacity. A civil company designed and tested the blades, in order to make a profit; “all” we had to do was buy them, and fit them.Tail fold requires cutting the aircraft up, not quite so simple.Don’t think we need it anyway, we are going to have the two biggest LPH in the world, one of which could easily accommodate the entire Merlin HC3/3A fleet in one go, with plenty of room to spare……I think we will need rotor fold though. I find this number of 7 plus door gunner a bit hard to grapple with.I am obviously believing the marketing hype which says (the way I read it anyway) it can fit 7 in crash resistant seats and a door gunner – I suspect this is the bit where TD points me to one his excellent previous posts on the Wildcat where he debunks this as nonsense.X, Hello again I mentioned the KAI Surion not that long ago which I don’t think anyone noticed. So, there you are team, so figures to play with when disputing what our machines can manage to do. Also, don’t forget that since 1999 the budget for SH has belonged to the Army and arguably it had a large say in everything long before that (formation of JHC).It is fine to blame someone for these mess ups but blame the correct people!! This modern helicopter from NH-Industries, flown by German, France, Italian and Dutch forces is the very first heli with Fly-by-wire system. The Swedes however will probably include a massive sensible spares, support and training package because they tend to have their heads screwed on properly. I think even a lead-in trainers nose cone would be wider than a 330 gallon drop tank, so the cost for the pods would likely be high as you would need to develop a 200 or 300 TR radar array, then incorporate a new layout for the processors to fit in the pod, and then link it to pylon so it feeds into the cockpit MFD, all the time likely only producing 24 – 30 pods in total, so that we could embark a full squadron on our remaining CVS.I think you listen to too many stories in the pub.