Increased Heli Lift for Afghanistan
Some time ago the press ran a couple of articles regarding the use of Russian helicopters by the UK Military to help sort out our medium/heavy lift shortfall. Security Solutions were touted as being a potential supplier
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/11/uhelicopter.xml then it seemed the deal was off
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...18/nwar118.xml
So, what's going on now? As I understand it we still have a shortfall and I can't imagine that this sort of option would have been totally dropped, or has it?