EH-101 "Normal" helicopter? Nic is right.
The EH-101 has has 5 major accidents in its 55,000 hours, making its accident record worse than the R-22, and worse than any other military helicopter in European or US service.
It has also earned its reputation as a dog, requiring way to much maintenance. Notice how little time it is building each year? With a fleet of 90 aircraft, the fleet should be getting over 50,000 hours a year, not every 8 years. Each dog seems to be getting about 150 hours a year, which is 1/3 of what a "normal" helicopter gets. Crappy maintenance history, I think, and lots of groundings we do not here about.
Those "combat proven" aircraft were supported by aircraft in England working as parts bins:
London - 09 Apr 2004 "According to a story in today's Daily Telegraph newspaper, the RAF has been forced to cannibalise two Merlin HC.3s in order to keep two other aircraft operational in Bosnia."
Yep, combat proven - But what was proven, visionary?