looks suspiciously like the Dhruv.. what’s the deal.

Dhruv is based on the Bk-117, and the Ec-145 is just a Bk-117 II

If they can sell 80 planes to Algeria nobody is going to care about Morocco. Mainly because Algeria has the big bucks despite Morocco.

Portuguese Air Force could be interested in selling from 8 to 10 F-16 upgraded by OGMA, nothing else.

They’re negotiating for the 11 aircraft that the ADF rejected. Kaman asserts that they have fixed all outstanding issues, and have renamed them SH-2G(I). Perhaps the NZ navy are simply setting the bar a little lower; they don’t seem to be interested in using AGM-119 for example.

Well, they already are using AGM-65´s in the Kaman fleet, that should be enough.

So when we deployed EF-18´s over Bosnia long time ago, we had our planes with Nite Hawk pods, Sparrow & Sidewinders, GBU-16, and HARM at the same time. What´s that? multirole? omnirole?

Can you point me to the official declaration asking for offers to buy?

If not, then it is NOT being offered “right now”.

The same declaration about the export of the Leopard IIE to Saudi Arabia, and today the MoD is in Saudi Arabia. At least trying.

The AASM is more appropriate than the SDB for more hardened target and has specific operational advantages link to the fact that it has a booster. That being said the AASM is certainly expensive but this has not prevent france to acquire large quantity of it and a country like Morocco to purchase it.

Morocco had a package of french weapons with the Astrac program, about 50 AASM. They even received some old Magic 2.

Not for sale… to be placed in reserve.

PdA was scheduled for a major refit next year (her 25-year mark) to take her through her expected 35-40 year service life (up to last year a replacement was expected to be ordered for delivery ~2025-2030).

The discussion is to place her “in reserve” instead of that refit… with the refit to take place “when” economic recovery allows the budget.

In actually, it is very unlikely she will be returned to Spanish service… but they will only admit this after at least 5 more years.

At that time they may well try to sell her, but she would need even more work to make her fit for service, and if Spain keeps her AV-8B+ aircraft (Juan Carlos I is set up to operate them in a manner similar to the USMC’s operations from USN LHA/LHDs), then she would only be a helicopter carrier with the bow ramp making a big part of the flight deck unusable.

PdA is not capable of operating F-35B anyway (lifts are too small & weak), so there might not actually be too many takers.

Right now the ship is being offered in the market.