And the Tiger is even worse!! basic cost of 22 Tigers plus cost of intergrating Hellfire system(French are saying thankyou Australian Army we now have the Hellfire System to sell as an option to other operators and the intergration it didn't cost us a cent!!),
Not true, CoA can receive royalties!
plus cost of bigger engines as the Tiger can't hover in Darwin with full fuel and Weapon load ,plus cost of partical seperators which takes away the power margines the bigger engines gave us and higher fuel burn of bigger engines give less range , lot of thinking went into buying this gem!! and for all that TOTAL cost we could have had 24 AH64-D in service now.But it is a step up from a Kiowa for Recce!
Not true, the increased power is for the power margin only. The ARH meets the hover requirements and it the engine mods do not decrease range.
How late was the UK apache program running, 6 years! ARH is also now off the DMO hit list.
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/C...CurrentId=7756
The one good think at least we bought more Chinooks and hope we buy more at least the Chooks will keep going when the Eurocrap breaks!