Source for former and what has latter got to do with this? (Repair analysis?!?)
Quotes from above articles.
AW149: Designed to Survive on the Modern Battlefield – Part 1
In the first of a two-part series analysing the AW149's survivability, we look at how the platform was designed with battlefield survivability in mind. There will be a focus on the airframe’s crashworthiness and minimised susceptibility to enemy fire, in addition to its unparalleled gearbox run...uk.leonardo.com
AW149: Designed to Survive on the Modern Battlefield – Part 2
In the second of a two-part series analysing the survivability of Leonardo's latest-generation AW149 multi-role helicopter, we move beyond the airframe and the inner layers of the ‘Survivability Onion’. We will now focus on explaining how a reduced exhaust Infrared signature, next generation...
Sexy, sexiness from Leonardo. Seriously, some interesting information.
Having flown a 139 I will say that it is a fine flying helicopter. In fairness Airbus has some great platforms as well. Having done Blackhawks for some time, in a former life, I am partial to it as an assault platform, The UK has three great options to choose from.
So PR puff pieces.
I have been involved in three Canadian procurements and they were all disastrous. Government would launch a programme, withdraw and then re-issue the requirement. Spend lots of money and then cancel. Or pick S92 for ASW work (with no track record of that capability), when they already had a Merlin variant in the fleet. Or make a down-select, only to have a change of Government, followed by an immediate change in direction.
NATO spec, and a US MILSPEC.
What NATO spec? (DEFSTANs are a UK MoD thing).
Actually, I said just get more Wildcat, Merlin and Chinook and so benefit from economies of scale on existing training and support pyramids and be able to scale deployments much easier. That probably isnt “visionary” enough….
