Minus 5 deg AoA upon impact ?! How would you identify a RN F35 pilot? The one with the rubber pants…

New Zealand issues RFT for NH90 helicopter simulator

the TNZA variant of the NH90 helicopters from the Ohakea air base located north of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. The Air Force anticipates an annual “flying“ rate for the simulator of between 1,500 and 1,900 hours.
A minimum requirement for the simulator’s software and hardware is meeting the NATO Helicopter Management Agency’s final operating configuration, including five multifunction displays — and level-three standards as detailed in European Aviation Safety Agency certification specifications for helicopter flight simulators; however, the MoD said that “a full-motion simulator is also acceptable.“

Source:
DefenseNews.com

A political sad story, wasn’t it? No political backing for Mako, no apparent European or US interest in buying it.

C’mon, it was an advanced trainer. Had Airbus kept the line with the high performances/no weapon/embedded virtual training idea that was really revolutionary at the time and the project would have been easily self-funded. Aircraft manufacturers around the world from all times have been down that road creating truly revolutionary designs without barely any inputs from State finances. Here, the Geniuses at Airbus added their low understanding of the market asking things like weapon carriage, fighter level systems etc… that destroyed this project (an error not committed by today Boeing or Northrop).
The alleged lack of political backing, perhaps a contestable opinion to say the least, has nothing to do here. Airbus failed it by itself. It had the right idea, the bright minds, the technical competences, it could be envisioned that there was an infancy of a market but they missed that opportunity thanks to the conformism and lack of visionary sight at management level. Exactly what killed the 380 before it even flew…

Today, it would be suicidal to go down that road with an expensive project like a 5th+ fighter aircraft. If you have been dazed by the syphoning of states finance to keep the heads from rolling down the gutter with the A400 project, brace yourself firmly: without any radical changes, the road will be bumpy and a large share of weapon design capital could be sunk forever irreversibly exposing Europe’s east, south and far frontiers.

Again, this is only plain logic.

Mako… What a sad story
Mako existence would have pulled back T-X in limbo, boosting de-facto Airbus to the leading position for Pilot training. Hundreds of contractors would have participated in the combined training sustaining both Bk117 and Mako.
Another failure that I failed to add to the list 😀

wouldn’t the setup costs to be recovered on a limited number of frames manufactured render those frames extremely expensive?

It’s generally cheaper to have a static production line, at least with a moderate number of experienced professionals. There is a reason why some are reluctant to invest on a higher production output.
Here, LM will see the production cost decreases at the expense of reduced output and, in theory, a lower quality level in overall (a higher number of production OP per operator means a higher number of non-conformity (errors)).

Neuron is a 400M€ project. A little bit cheap to jump the gap in VLO design
According to Dassault Powerpoint, Neuron’RCS is b/w 1/100 to 1/1000th of legacy aircraft. So if you take

RCS_Old 100 -> 1 top 0.1m²
RCS_Old 10 -> 0.1 top 0.01m²
RCS_Old 5 -> 0.05 top 0.005m²

Which by the words of DA gives:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]255140[/ATTACH]

We are not in anyway discussing the size of a ball of golf…

@Marcellogo: you mean peritectic?