UK to Join FVL Programme?

[ORAC]

https://twitter.com/nicholadrummond/...tiPJfCo-CppCRA

Superb thread. Bin NMW. Gap capability. Acquire V-280 when we can afford it. Build it at Yeovil. Platform Range and SF roles described below are compelling..

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...279905792.html

[rattman]

I have been looking at it from an australian POV, big issue he sorta ignore the a whole 3 times the price factor. Estimated price of about 55 million an airframe compared to about 20 million for a Blackhawk, the valor price might come down but not by that much

[Lonewolf_50]

FWIW, the V-22 is similarly quite expensive. There is a small set of potential (wealthy enough) customers for it.
Japan, for the moment, is the sole FMS success.
Israel was interested but decided that it was not quite what they wanted. (I am guessing that price informed quite a bit of that choice not to proceed).
India was interested in purchasing six attack version V-22s for rapid troop insertion in border areas back in 2016.
Indonesia may still be interested.

On 6 July 2020, the U.S. State Department announced that they had approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia of eight Block C MV-22s and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2 billion. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of this possible sale.

Valor may run into a similar obstacle if the price point is too high.

[rattman]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50

FWIW, the V-22 is similarly quite expensive. There is a small set of potential (wealthy enough) customers for it.
Japan, for the moment, is the sole FMS success.

There was some marine V-22 operating out of RAAF townsville during talisman saber 2022. Apparently lots of bigwigs from the ADF were having a close look at them. But ultimately the price of them was the real killer

[Asturias56]

a coupleof years back there were number of V-22's buzzing about C London - I assumed it was to show them off to a UK as a potential buyer - especially for the Two carriers