I still can't believe the Tiger hasn't been used in Afghan
where Aussie supports Aussie.
We agree on that point, but someone now serving made the point right here on Pprune, I'm assuming repeating something he heard at work, that because of the enormous unit price, politically, the AAVN cannot afford to lose a Tiger/MRH-90 airframe in battle.
This gets back to Bushranger's repeated comments here and on other sites that, since the RAAF 'was retired' from the helicopter world, the whole concept of the
affordable (both to buy and operate) utility helicopter has been lost in the ADF. We're using Bentlys, and paying the price of buying and operating Bentlys, to do the job of a Kingswood ute.
Oh, did I say we're
using Bentlys? Because we're not. We've bought Bentlys, (the newest, cutting-edge model, that hadn't even been road tested before we bought them), but ten years or more since doing so,
they still don't work.