Originally Posted by
SASless
The UK never does an OTS purchase (at least to my memory re helicopter purchases) as they always have to UK-ize whatever they buy.
Examples....Westland S-70's, Chinooks, and Apaches.
How off the shelf can the UK purchase of say.....the Sikorsky UH-60M be in reality and what would need to be UK specific differences?
64E is pretty off the shelf iirc, as is the apparently stalled CH-47 fleet expansion. We've gotten a lot better at OTS since we realised we are broke!