Australian Army MRH-90 helicopters to be buried in landfill
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Australian Army MRH-90 helicopters to be buried in landfill
The Army MRH-90 Taipan helicopter fleet to be dismantled and buried in landfill.
Story in Melbourne Herald-Sun (behind a paywall)
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Sky News has the story:
Defence dismantles Taipan helicopter fleet | Sky News Australia
Story in Melbourne Herald-Sun (behind a paywall)
Heraldsun.com.au | Subscribe to the Herald Sun for exclusive stories
Sky News has the story:
Defence dismantles Taipan helicopter fleet | Sky News Australia
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That's a l a b o r Govt for ya....couldn't 'part them out' and sell to those who continue to operate them....ALL of Europe included.
Yeah, I heard the gearboxes went to 'someone' but.....there's just gotta be a better way to some 'cost recovery'....even if its back to the MANUFACTURER.....for selling us a 'lemon'.....
WOT? NO 'warranty' / 'fit for purpose' condition to the sale.
Better Get Hardly Normal onto that!!
And, 'tis Christmas....for some.....would be IF someone would bury certain 'pollies' in said landfill....
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Yeah, I heard the gearboxes went to 'someone' but.....there's just gotta be a better way to some 'cost recovery'....even if its back to the MANUFACTURER.....for selling us a 'lemon'.....
WOT? NO 'warranty' / 'fit for purpose' condition to the sale.
Better Get Hardly Normal onto that!!
And, 'tis Christmas....for some.....would be IF someone would bury certain 'pollies' in said landfill....
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Last edited by Ex FSO GRIFFO; 23rd Dec 2023 at 08:21. Reason: anger
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Which government ordered those choppers? Isn't there usually an agreement with military orders that the aircraft can't be onsold or used civilly, eg Blackhawks/Seahawks/Huey's?
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"According to the 'Asia Pacific Defence Reporter' (APDR), the decision was signed off in secret to destroy them rather than try to sell them.""The publication suggests some expensive components such as gear boxes are being sold to New Zealand."
This decision purely demonstrates the total lack of accountability within government.
Also not forgetting that government decided to purchase a lemon that's been plagued with problems for the AAD that can't refuel in Hobart. And there was the 19 million given away to consultants to decide that it wasn't a good idea to build an airstrip in Antarctica.
Daddy, my 45 helicopters that you bought me for Christmas are broken! Chuck them in the rubbish son, and don't worry about the cost or environmental impacts as we won't tell mummy - keep it a secret son!!!!
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Hold the phone, Al Capone. Wasn't the MRH90 part of the sweetener for Australia to take on the A380? And, if this is the case, wouldn't there be a clause that we would not be able to dispose of them into the industry similar to the US lend-lease arrangement?
They can join all those beautiful red cedar dining tables taken from the Officers' Messes around the country and buried in a scrape on Amberley base. Replaced with aluminium and formica tables, "easier to clean".
Gne
Good call GNE bit I reckon the last carrier deck landing was probably about 1989 - you better stop that, pwecious may hurt himself.
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...Also not forgetting that government decided to purchase a lemon that's been plagued with problems for the AAD that can't refuel in Hobart. And there was the 19 million given away to consultants to decide that it wasn't a good idea to build an airstrip in Antarctica.
Might be worth a new thread being created about that? How can $19M be spent before it is clear the pin needs to be pulled on a project?
Update: There is a thread on that topic under "Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific" titled: 'A real bad precedent': Australia criticised for Antarctica airport plan. I placed the link to the ABC article there.
Last edited by helispotter; 25th Dec 2023 at 23:33.
Have these Taipans been grounded anywhere else for the same reason? Or is this purely u inquest to Australia?
The reason for the ongoing grounding of the fleet in Australia is intertwined with the prior planned retirement of the type. The Defence Minister made it clear a few months back that the timeframe for completion of the investigation of the accident would be such that continued grounding up to retirement of the fleet was inevitable. I sense a degree of politics mixed into the decisions too, once claims start being made (from elements of the opposition) about "dangerous" helicopters.
There are two other threads which cover this subject: In "Rotorheads" see "NH-90 Problems". In "Military Aviation" see "MRH-90 crash australia". Under the former link, Cyclic Hotline provided an item with summary of planned early retirements of various of the NH-90 fleet in post #279. Such early retirements include from Australia, Belgium, Sweden and Norway.
Just shows that Governments don’t give a rats about the taxpayer. Must be plenty of surplus dollars lying around that a billion dollars worth of helicopters can just be chucked in a hole.
Surely the technical problems are not so insurmountable that fixes couldn’t be made.
SeaSprite all over again in $ terms of wastage 1.2 bil
Disgusting in the extreme
Surely the technical problems are not so insurmountable that fixes couldn’t be made.
SeaSprite all over again in $ terms of wastage 1.2 bil
Disgusting in the extreme