Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
You mean like how the UH-60 wasn't chosen by the Spanish (back in the 90's or late 80's) despite winning the fly off, after the French forwarded a few Basque separatists to Spain?
(Memory vague, believe extradition was involved)
Is that the kind of thing you are referring to?
(Granted, I got that second hand - there may be some more missing pieces to that story)
(This is not to be confused with the Seahawks which were in fact bought by the Spanish Navy)
Funny you should mention that as just picked up (and dusted off!!) my copy of Paul Beaver's 'Modern Military Helicopters' published 1987 and in the section about the Sikorsky S-70A series he mentions that not only Spain but Switzerland chose the Blackhawk but for political reasons, it never went through!
cheers