Originally Posted by
Cyclic Hotline
well the subtitle of the article is quite interesting:
Germany blames Airbus for the helicopters' low availability, but it is the latest example of the country's general continuing readiness woes.
especially the part after “but”... so is it really ONLY the manufacturers fault? Or a more general issue within some militaries on a budget like: ordering as much aircraft as possible for the given budget, but forgetting that these systems mostly require maintenance and spare parts? Maybe order those in reasonable quantities as well? It is always easy to blame a manufacturer (not that they don’t play a part as well...), does not matter if it is in this case Airbus, or for example Lockheed for a JSF, but there is always a “backstory.