Little Bird replacement

[chopper2004]

It appears for the modernising of 160th SOAR that the replacement for the A/MH-6 Little Bird will be another Little Bird for now.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...W7WuchsXeozC-k

Cheers

[SASless]

Sometimes you just reach into your toolbox and pull out your favorite hammer when you need to drive a nail.

One passage in the linked article stood out to me.....as I bleed Chinook having flown them in 1968....with one of them currently in the US Army Museum at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Who would have guessed the old girls would still be strutting their stuff a century later?

There is no plan at the moment to develop a heavy lift FVL platform to replace the Army’s Chinooks. Conventional forces and SOCOM will be flying the tandem-rotor helicopters into the 2060s and are preparing a suite of structural and performance upgrades to keep them relevant for another 40 years. SOCOM is ahead of the Army in upgrading its MH-47G Chinooks to Block II configuration, with redesigned fuel tanks, stiffer airframe, and improved drivetrain. That work will carry SOCOM out to 2029, at which point plans are to introduce Block “X” upgrades, according to Downer.

[KiwiNedNZ]

They have been talking about replacing the Little Bird for long long time - and nothing ever happens.

[chopper2004]

Soldier On

Out of this SOF Week in Tampa, is the knock on effect from FARA cancellation that an A/MH-6 Little Bird replacement is not going to happen.

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/sofi...-gi3MsImoJRbyS

cheers

[Tickle]

Quite a tough and agile machine. What other type do we think might make a good modern basis to be modified to replace it?

[Rob_L]

Originally Posted by Tickle

Quite a tough and agile machine. What other type do we think might make a good modern basis to be modified to replace it?

From an earlier time but the book Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills is worth a read.
I came away amazed that any of the pilots or aircraft survived.

[Tickle]

Originally Posted by Rob_L

From an earlier time but the book Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills is worth a read.
I came away amazed that any of the pilots or aircraft survived.

I have it - sits proudly on my shelf alongside Chickenhawk, Howard's Whirlybirds, Flak and Firebirds. Interestingly, the Low Level Hell book has just a black spine with no text or anything on it. Is your copy the same?