Max Con
Well lets see if it lives up to the sales brochure, if it does it will be the first!
I think you might like to strike one thing off your list of brand new sar toys:
http://www.shephard.co.uk/rotorhub/D...4-f4fc44adef4b
It may be able to do lots of things and talk to the world....... except lift many survivors/deliver many firemen.
You said "A better strategy would be to chose a modern platform capable of SAR and have the MIRG teams adjust the size of their fighting unit to match". You might as well get SAR incidents to adjust the number of survivors to fit the aircraft at the same time.
DtD