Originally Posted by
FloaterNorthWest
Add that to this
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/p...national-guard
Then it seems the U.K. putting H145 into a region with OEM support for the two governments involved makes sense but you will still get cries of “should have bought Blackhawk” and yes I know there are Blackhawks in the area but they are too big and too expensive for the role involved as it doesn’t need an armed aircraft with a proven battlefield record of being shot at.
The LPs made for BH looked like Hamburger Hill they cut down so many trees. The LPs used by the British were also extensively landscaped a couple of years ago to cater for the Puma tricycle undercarriage too.