True though France Italy and Germany as principal partners in the making of NH90 get spares first and foremost. Others have very poor serviceability records. Take Norway or Belgium as examples. Also look how many engineering and support staff Germany have sent to Gao in Mail to support 3 airframes for medevac replacing a civilian EC225 that carried twice as many stretchers….
Originally Posted by
212man
it’s funny how many other nations just ‘get in with it’ and you never hear anything. Oman has 18, for instance. France deploys to West Africa on operations (Tiger too). Italy deployed to Afghanistan. Etc…..