No offense, but I think you guys are missing the point. IFS or no IFS, Army flys between 80-100k flight hours a year. That will not change dramatically ovet the next 10 years and by using the UH-72 it will cost , at a minimum, 150-200% more per hour. The will literally spend all the savings of not replacing the Kiowa on flight hours at Rucker? Why ? Because the UH-72 needs a home? They will also be, with the exception of German 105s and now EC-135s, the only ones to employ an EC-145 as a primary trainer. There has to be a smarter more pragmatic solution.
Last edited by Stinger10; 10th March 2014 at 15:31.