Category: Helicopter construction

The Netherlands will order 14 Airbus H225M Caracal helicopters from France

The Dutch special forces will continue to trust aircraft from Airbus Helicopters it seems. Indeed, the Dutch Defense Secretary, Christophe van der Maat, announced in an interview given to the news site De Telegraaf, that the Netherlands was going to acquire a fleet of 14 H225 Caracal maneuver helicopters from the helicopter manufacturer to replace the 12 AS532 Cougars in service with the Royal Netherlands Air Force for transport and combat search and rescue missions. The amount of the contract announced by the minister is not yet clearly defined, estimated between 1 and 2,5 billion euros. On the other hand, we…

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United Arab Emirates cancels order for 12 French H225M Caracal helicopters

In December 2021, Abu Dhabi announced the order for 12 H225M Caracal maneuver helicopters from Airbus Helicopters on the sidelines of the historic order for 80 Rafale combat aircraft for the modernization of its air forces and the replacement of its Mirage 2000-9. Worth €800 million, the contract enabled the Marignane industrial site to fill an order book that lacked depth in this period marked by the significant drop in orders for aircraft dedicated to off-shore missions, favorite of the Super Puma. Unfortunately, it seems that Airbus Helicopter failed to convince its Middle Eastern customers, since according to Muammar Abdulla…

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Airbus' super-speedy Racer helicopter demonstrator should (really) fly this year

Twice, on March 7 and 15, 2022, several transport and attack helicopters of the Russian forces in forward deployment at Kherson International Airport were victims of Ukrainian attacks which destroyed or seriously damaged at least fifteen aircraft with an artillery strike and a special forces attack. In accordance with Russian doctrine, the aircraft had indeed been deployed as close as possible to the engagement zone, so as to reduce transit times and reaction times to support the forces. Unfortunately for the Russian general staff, the Ukrainians were able to take advantage of this weakness to carry out one of the first brilliant actions...

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Spanish Navy turns to Sikorsky's MH-60R anti-submarine warfare helicopter to arm its frigates

In terms of naval helicopter dedicated to anti-submarine warfare missions, the Western offer can be summed up, in broad outline, in a confrontation between the NH90 NFH (Nato Frigate helicopter) of the European consortium NH Industries, and the MH -90R (called Romeo) from the American Sikorsky. For a time, one might have thought that the European aircraft would succeed in imposing itself against the quasi-hegemony Sikorsky had with the SH-60 Seahawk until now, the NH90 NFH in service with the Italian and French navies obviously offering very satisfactory performances, in particular in terms of anti-submarine warfare, a favorite field of the French Navy. Unfortunately, in recent years...

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Like submarines, have the Tiger and NH90 helicopters been the subject of an unwarranted smear campaign in Australia?

Ahead of the dramatic announcement of the cancellation of the Shortfin Barracuda Attack-class submarine program designed by Naval Group for the Royal Australian Navy, in order to replace them with US-British nuclear-powered attack submarines within the framework of the constitution of the new alliance AUKUS, the program like Naval Group had been the object of an intense campaign of denigration as much in the press as in the armies and in the Australian parliament. As we had done then failed, the criticisms then repeated in a loop by the tabloids and even in the classic press, moreover widely taken up without contradiction by…

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Japan wants to replace its attack and reconnaissance helicopters with drones

A year after the start of the conflict, the lessons of the war in Ukraine, the first very high-intensity war employing the entire modern conventional panoply for many decades, are beginning to influence the military planning of the major world powers. This is how the heavy tank, until recently considered by many as a legacy of the past now too vulnerable to new missiles and prowling ammunition, is now at the heart of the capability concerns of many armies in Europe and beyond. . Even in France, this influence is noticeably felt on the next Military Programming Law, which must in particular give back to…

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Should France buy the Australian Tiger and NH90 Taïpan helicopters?

The Australian armed forces are today deploying 22 Tiger ARH combat helicopters derived from the HAD standard of the French Light Aviation Army (ALAT), as well as 41 NH-90 MRH maneuver helicopters designated in the country. under the name Taipan. Significant availability problems led the Australian General Staff to announce, just two years ago, the acquisition of 2 AH-29E Guardian combat helicopters to replace its Tigers from 64, as well as its intention to replace its Taipans, which also suffered from poor organization of the supply chain, leading to major problems of availability and costs. It is…

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The US Army chooses the Bell V-280 Valor with tiltrotors to replace its Black Hawks

Increasing the tactical transport capacity by 50%, while going twice as fast and twice as far as a UH-60 Black-Hawk helicopter, such is the more than ambitious specification of the Futur Long Range Assault Aircraft program. , or FLRAA, one of the pillars of the Futur Vertical Lift program aimed at replacing, from the second half of the current decade, no less than 4000 rotary wings in service within the US Army, ranging from the OH-58 Kiowa reconnaissance (withdrawn from service in 2014) to the CH-47 Chinook heavy helicopter, through the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and the UH-60 Black maneuver helicopter…

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After Australia and Norway, Sweden will also do without its NH90 helicopters

In the mid-80s, France, Federal Germany, the Netherlands and Italy undertook to jointly co-develop, within the framework of a NATO project, a new medium helicopter intended both to replace the helicopters troop transport maneuvers, and specialized anti-submarine warfare devices on board frigates. Britain joined the program in 1987, but, as usual, quickly withdrew to develop its own aircraft, the Merlin. In 1992, the NHI (Nato Helcoptere Industry) consortium was created, bringing together AgustaWestland (Future Leonardo) for Italy, Fokker for the Netherlands and Airbus Helicopters for France and Germany. Year…

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Italy wants to board Sikorsky's S-97 Raider as part of the US Army's FVL program

Many were waiting for the winner of the Future Long Range Airborne Assault program, or FLRAA, one of the pillars of the US Army's Future Vertical Lift program, to be announced at the AUSA show in Washington, some of whose points we have mentioned several times. keys in recent days. But they were disappointed when the US Army Chief of Staff, General James McConville, announced at the US Army conference for the opening of this event, that the decision would be announced "d a few months from now”. But for General Luca Goretti, Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, it seems that the choice has already been made. In…

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