Hopefully it will see additional orders soon. Another stretch would really help !!

I would ask for the F 22 as well If i was Canadian. Canada is braced for a future conlfict with Russia on the Polar transit, waters, resources etc. I wouldn’t wannabe taking the mighty Russians on with a bunch of SH.

If something like this would happen -very doubtful but worth a discussion – I believe the big brother from the South will come to the rescue.

I personally like the idea of Canada getting the Super Hornet it seems to be the perfect aircraft for their needs.

Indeed there was. They were called Aertirrena.

The type had a West German C of A, too. A couple were used by an air taxi operator, if I recall correctly.

The German airline was called General Air.

BGS used Bell 212 primarily for coastal regions, where the stronger turbines were useful. Typical SAR bases for Bell 212 were Bremen, Hamburg, Güstrow, Eutin, all with possible very strong crosswinds coming from the sea. For other regions, Bo-105 and UH1D had enough “reserves”.
Of the ten Bell 212, four were equipped for Sea SAR (even if the Bundeswehr was responsible for that primarily), four as regular SAR for coastal regions, two as utility helos for disaster relief (and police ops, including for GSG9).

They acquired the Bell 212 before the Puma ?

I am still wondering, the Army/Luftwaffe Bell UH 1D were/are also often used for overwater flights and in my eyed the Bell 212 would have been a useful tool for the military as well. E.G. they could have replaced one squadron of Bell UH 1Ds with Bell 212 twenty years ago.

For larger transports, the Army had its (relatively many) CH-53, the Luftwaffe had the Do-28D-2. No need for an intermediate helo.

• The BGS had an operational need to shuttle around personnel primarily, including in riot control situations => Super Puma
• The Army needed something that could primarily transport equipment and vehicles, or a large quantity of personnel to secure a landing zone => CH-53 + UH-1D for small stuff
• The Luftwaffe needed a helo for SAR purposes, limited transport capacity, but with some capacity for wartime transport => UH-1D

Post Cold War, the Bundeswehr took over 101 Mi-8 from the NVA, which pretty much filled the same intermediate role that a Puma would have had. These served until 1994/95, in the VIP version until 1997. The VIP Mi-8S were replaced by Cougar, in fact.
For the remainder, the NH90 can be seen as their replacement in some way, after all the first NH90 TTH flew in 1995 already, and NAHEMA had signed off the design in 1992.

Thanks, still an upgrade to the Bell 212 would have been nice. Especially having two engines instead of one might have been a big plus.

Why did the BGS ordered the Bell 212 ? They also had Bell UH1Ds and Pumas ?

Why did the Germans never get newer model Hueys? Are the D models just perfect for their needs with no need to replace them or they just been waiting on a new Eurocopter design?

That is a question I have asked myself for years why did Army/Luftwaffe never bought Bell212/Pumas or Super Pumas like the Bundesgrenzschutz/Bundespolizei did but sticked to the Bell UH 1D for almost 40 years.

Isn´t there a new aircraft from Sukhoi that is a twin boom aircraft ?

German Mig-29s, have been evaluated in the USA, even before Desert Storm, IIRC.

They have been deployed to the US several times, in fact the only mission of the Mig 29 was as a combat training aircraft. Air Policy tasks were solely done by the the F 4 Phantom.