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) Heraldsun.com.au | Subscribe to the Herald Sun for exclusive stories Sky News has the story: Defence dismantles Taipan helicopter fleet | Sky News Australia |
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.... . |
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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Give them to Ukraine
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Are they going to join the Harley Davidsons, still in unopened crates and waxy oil paper, buried in Puckapunyal?
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Originally Posted by Ex FSO GRIFFO
(Post 11561263)
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.
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This decision purely demonstrates the total lack of accountability within government.
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!!!! |
Are they going to join the Harley Davidsons, still in unopened crates and waxy oil paper, buried in Puckapunyal? |
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?
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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".
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Originally Posted by Ascend Charlie
(Post 11561588)
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 aluminum 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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Raaaaalph was the best at carrier deck landings. Doing them naked reduced friction …..
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Or the WW2 aircraft and parts still buried at Oakey?
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Originally Posted by Capn Rex Havoc
(Post 11562005)
Raaaaalph was the best at carrier deck landings. Doing them naked reduced friction …..
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Originally Posted by Capn Rex Havoc
(Post 11562005)
Raaaaalph was the best at carrier deck landings. Doing them naked reduced friction …..
Happy Xmas Gulu |
Originally Posted by Duck Pilot
(Post 11561560)
...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. |
Have these Taipans been grounded anywhere else for the same reason? Or is this purely u inquest to Australia?
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Originally Posted by lucille
(Post 11562409)
Have these Taipans been grounded anywhere else for the same reason? Or is this purely... 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 |
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