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.
It may be a little naive to think such given current geo politics in the South China Sea. They were always sniffing offshore from Vietnam when we were flying there and that was before we had a PM building a friendly relationship with China 15 years ago.