Originally Posted by
TBM-Legend
Now that Army is out of fixed wing it must be time to move the choppers from the RAF to the Army where they belong! Works for US Army, Australian Army, German Army...
Laughingly there was some talk in the 80s or toying with giving battlefield helo control including Chinooks and Pumas and Merlin (when it would come in) to the AAC so I read in Paul Beaver's Army Air Corps.
Umm..with the Germans not quite. Under re hash/re org 6/7 years ago...the Luftwaffe for the first time in history took the 50 year old heavy lift capability from the Heeresflieger so CH-53G/GS/GA fleet is under their control. Luftwaffe also operates H145 LUH SOF and AS532UT COugar for VIP out of Berlin Tegel, The ginving up of Heeresflieger assets was an offset deal as the Luftwaffe gave their NH90 TTH i(ntended to replace their legacy UH-1D) plus the UH-1D (including SAR a/c) to the Heeresflieger. So for trrooping, and SAR aid to civilian authorities the Heeresfliger holds that ace with both NH90 TTH and UH-1D. However in saying that the H145M will be replacing the UH-1D SAR (some not all) by 2020/21.
Not affected are the Marineflieger SK and Sea Lynx (bar NH90 NFH Sea Lion replacing the SK and offerings of Wildcat, MH-60R, NH90 NFh to replace the Sea Lynx). Tigre PAH-2 attack helos are not affected nor are the training H135 and Bell 206b (provided by Motorflug GmbH for the necessary art of autorotations). Howver in saying that the Motorflug contract runs out 2020/1 timeframe and so the EC135 need replacing. Last year ADAC Technical Services have contract to provide 5 H135 for flying training at Buckeberg (
Internationales Hubschrauberausbildungszentrum) .Cheers