I think you are using your experience of the Lynx as an AH influence your belief in its abilities as a Maritime helicopter.
The Green Lynx has always been a bit of an oddity due to it being procured purely to give jobs to Westlands, hence nobody else bought it.
It is too small for useful amounts of troops, too vulnerable to be a real AH, too complex to keep servicable etc.
That does not mean that the maritime version is anything other than a fantastic helicopter. Flawed in many areas yes, but there simply is no competitor. It sells all round the world for a reason. It is a world beater.
The Seahawk is a great helicopter too, and I loved flying it, but they are poles apart. You might as well compare the C130 and the C17. They do not really do the same role.
The Seahawk is a Seaking replacement-merlin/NH90 competitor not a lynx replacement/wildcat competitor.
It suggest to me that the Koreans didn't really know what they wanted if both of those helicopters met the initial requirements.
Last edited by Tourist; 16th Jan 2013 at 15:45.