Tid, I know it is a bit radical mate but I have a funny feeling that this will be the future not to far away. We all know the advantages of these designs: Fast transit speeds like a plane, hover and listen like a helo, carry the same amount of ordenance as an A-4 (potentially)- Imagin a plane with eight tin fish ready to drop 😮 😀

It’s RAAF Property but serviced by other ADF personel for various reasons, as to who else has access to JORN, no only Australians are there. Others have seen the system and last I heard the US were buying three of the systems for deployment on the East, West and Southern Coasts- one I know has been delivered.

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Just found this while looking for a suitable pic of a Vietnamese Flanker:

Belly pain down Under– German Text, scroll down towards the bottom.

Well if I had to go for American products, I’d go this way to get a jump on the field :dev2: :diablo: :dev2: 😉 :p 😀

Combat and Medium Support:

Training and Light Support:

It’s all about thinking outside the box 😉 Who siad they had to be helo’s in the traditional sence 😀

Hahahahahahahaha, yes we spoke about that yesterday didn’t we, well what can you do :rolleyes:

Tid: mate there is no truth in that at all, in fact the Navy wanted the Seahawk and the Army wanted the Panther (for which they got the Blackhawk- sadly). See the main problem with the Puma is it’s height, had we bought those machines, we would have had to spend heaps of money on the FFG’s to raise the height of the hanger to incorporate enough room to change the rotors of the helo’s in the hanger, as it was we had the decks lengthened to make minimum clearence for the Seahawks, as these decks were only designed for the SH-2 in the LAMPS role!

As for your choice in military assets, interesting if not stubborn :p The Sikorski’s only have one thing in their favour- spares resources, the capabilities of the machine are not what most expected of them. They are however robust enought to survive a number of hits it areas but too many vital areas are easy to hit 🙁

Turb: Mate the EH-101 is a very nice and capable machine, but in a lot of cases, it is just simply too big! This is the main reason why it lost the AIR 9000 contract with us (though I do like the idea of dropping three companys in behind the lines over the two companies the MRH-90 offers, but size was a major factor here, we didn’t want to fiddle too much around with hangers and decks just to incorperate a bigger helo. As for your combo- two thumbs up mate, i love the Lynx in both its versions

No I am not saying that, I am saying that India went directly to the French to buy these ships (government to government deal).

France wants at least one of the three to be built in their yard, but India wants to build all three in theirs and this is where the deal is at atm.

Don’t worry about the French mate, they are not going to go without, the Indian navy is in discussion with Armaris as we speak about buying three ships to be constructed in India