i remember when we first got them and I think it was DW on the Ops desk that took a call from an irate farmer who had asked to be put through to those people with the new helicopters, he complained they were scaring his livestock and was told, well, they better we’ll get used to it as they will be here for the next 40 years….. :)


The CH-53 makes sense in they operate the type etc all be it an earlier version, but have operational experience, but on this side of the pond one would think the CH 47 would make more sense in NATO inter operability with the U.K., The Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Spain all operating the type, with possibly other countries equipping with them.


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Boeing chosen??
 

‚„Supposedly“ Berlin is buying the Boeing CH—47F for the Bundeswehr — Luftwaffe for their STH requirement. 🤔🤔

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...pYGlVCbbs21ako

Any thoughts please?

cheers

Leaked by "Bild am Sonntag" tabloid Newspaper. I still consider this information to be reliable. Claimed to be an upcoming order for 60 Chinooks. ILA Berlin air show might be more interesting than anticipated this year. Smart move by Boeing to cooperate with Airbus helicopters for the support.

They have just binned the advanced rotors for them, see the link I posted in Rotorheads.

Reuters reporting CH-47F selected:

Germany to buy 60 heavy transport helicopters from Boeing, Bild am Sonntag reports | Reuters

Was reported some time ago that the Advanced Chinook Rotor Blades have been dropped form the Block 2 upgrade, due to vibration issues. Not entirely clear yet if the Block 2 upgrade itself will go ahead.

The german MoD today declared that no decision has been made yet. Might be because the parliament has to be asked first during this week.

Now confirmed by the german Minister of Defence.

That’s $800M each - that’s the same price as a B-21 bomber, which will doubtless have people questioning the decision to order 100. The USMC has ordered 200 CH-53K…

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2023...k-helicopters/

US Navy awards Sikorsky $2.7 billion for 35 CH-53K helicopters

thats a maths fail, its about 80million, more accurately 77142857.1429 million each

True, but that's still expensive.