UH-72A Fleet plus 1 Million Flight hours
Across the US Army, Army National Guard and US Navy (Naval Test Pilots School) Airbus UH-72A Lakota has surpassed 1 million Flight hours.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2021/10/Airbus-Helicopters-UH-72-Lakota-fleet-surpasses-one-million-flight-hours.html Over the last decade Ive had pleasure of seeing the Lakota be it aggressor OPFOR based at Hohenfels AAF (Ravens / Falcons) at ILA Berlin 2014 to USNTPS at AIr & Space Expo 2019 at Joint Base Andrews along with VA and MDArmy National Guard https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...5-jpeg.609430/ https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...5-jpeg.609431/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...0-jpeg.609432/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...9-jpeg.609433/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...8-jpeg.609434/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...1-jpeg.609435/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...e-jpeg.609436/ https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...3-jpeg.609437/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...9-jpeg.609439/https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/at...c-jpeg.609441/ |
Good piece of kit. Heard they are getting some new, much more capable B models (H145) as well…
https://www.flightglobal.com/helicop...145367.article |
UH-72A vs TH-73A
I have never worked on the UH-72 but everyone in my organization that does says the same things about the maintenance on the aircraft being fairly intense. (The fleet is ~180 aircraft used for primary helicopter training) Of course, if the Army had purchased a more modern variant(FADEC vs VARTOMS is one that sticks out) and contracted the logistics of parts supply differently a lot of these issues would have been taken care of, just looking from the outside.
I notice the US Navy did some things differently for their training Helicopter, the TH-73. They got a FADEC equipped, single engine helicopter with a glass cockpit for around half the price of the UH-72A. So, those that have experience, which platform do you think is better for what the services are using them for: UH-72A(EC145) or TH-73A(AW119)? Just curious. |
...so the US Army uses a French helicopter and the US Navy uses an Italian helicopter? 'Murica
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Apparently the ANG have received the first of the "B" back in September?
At least some parts might be in common but maybe not that much! https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....28b35c297c.jpg |
Originally Posted by RMK
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...so the US Army uses a French helicopter and the US Navy uses an Italian helicopter? 'Murica
The Air Force has AW139s now as well… |
Originally Posted by RMK
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...so the US Army uses a French helicopter ....
skadi |
Originally Posted by skadi
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It's a BK117, so it's mostly german!
skadi |
And French and American and Israeli and UK and Swiss and ………
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Originally Posted by RVDT
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And French and American and Israeli and UK and Swiss and ………
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