MRH-90 crash Australia

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Originally Posted by golder

That publication gets so much wrong.

These two are closer
https://aviationweek.com/defense-spa...ck-inventories
NHIndustries, the joint venture (JV) that produces NH90 helicopters, has begun the process of buying back Australia’s fleet and harvesting the aircraft for spare parts.

Norwegian NH90s lined up for part-out and also references Australia
https://www.flightglobal.com/norwegi...155253.article

The Aviation Week link was a subscription item, but I got the gist of it and could read all the second link. That sounds a lot better. I guess NHI has no interest in the airframes themselves if they can't keep up with demand for the dynamic components, etc. But does that effectively spell the end of production of the NH90 since it seems a complete waste to be destroying airframes that wouldn't have reached their service life (what ever that is) while building new airframes later on.

From my own experience in another field, I am aware APDR gets information scrambled sometimes, but Kym makes numerous claims in the article and I don't imagine he has plucked them all out of thin air. With the Department of Defence being so silent on this whole saga, no surprise others try to fill the void based on whispers.