Future Lynx on track?
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Geordie I agree with every word you say but if AW built home designed Attack Helicopters or a Heavy Lift aircraft, you could bet your mortgage that we would not be buying Apaches or Chinooks.
Like it or loathe it AW is the UK Helicopter manufacturer and with the Defence Industrial Strategy and Partnering they are the MoDs 1st port of call for rotary wing.
Its the MoD responsibility to make sure AW stop gouging the taxpayer and give us kit that is fir for purpose. It's gonna take a long time but they will change.
Personnally I think the MoD SHOULD/MUST compete all work just to prove we get the best kit possible and get VFM.
Still like Wildcat and (donning anorak out) didnt the FAA call their F4s Martlets?
Like it or loathe it AW is the UK Helicopter manufacturer and with the Defence Industrial Strategy and Partnering they are the MoDs 1st port of call for rotary wing.
Its the MoD responsibility to make sure AW stop gouging the taxpayer and give us kit that is fir for purpose. It's gonna take a long time but they will change.
Personnally I think the MoD SHOULD/MUST compete all work just to prove we get the best kit possible and get VFM.
Still like Wildcat and (donning anorak out) didnt the FAA call their F4s Martlets?
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If it seems that we must purchase a new helicopter and and it must be a "Lynx"of some sort, why can Westlands not produce Blackhawks and call them lynxhawk or something. As far as I am aware they have already made one or two (there is a westland company model of one, with a selection of stub wings holding various weapons, in the helicopter museum at Weston). If this were to happen, then British jobs would still be safe. After all it's hardly a new idea is it! Whirlwind, Wessex, Sea King and Apache come to mind, amongst others.
Barnstormer1968
PS There is also a model of a Westland designed attack helicopter based on Lynx, that never went into production
Barnstormer1968
PS There is also a model of a Westland designed attack helicopter based on Lynx, that never went into production
