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Some interesting legalese in play here:
"...NHI was not offered the possibility to discuss the latest proposal made to improve the availability of the NH90 in Norway and to address the specific Norwegian requirements."
That's roughly equivalent to 'We offered a dying swan, last gasp pitch at achieving availability (that everybody knew was unachievable), but the Norwegians saw right through it and decided to tell us to poke off". As long as the procurement contract had a hard coded availability requirement, and the non availabilities were well documented for cause and impact, the Norwegians will have a pretty solid case. A good time to discuss availability requirements with the customer is often before contract signature, not 17 years into the delivery cycle.
It worked with australia, they were given 12 months, at their own expense to fix our MRH-60