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  • MOD (UK) to drop Westland and Future Lynx

    www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...rmy229.xml

    So looks like the UK will be shopping for new coppers, what do people think would be the best choice given the UK's requirements?

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    UK helicopter industry 'will die in MoD cuts' - Telegraph

    This link you mean?

    I would rather we kept the jobs in the UK but the other options are good ones and off the shelf would be handy for a quick turn around. Dont like the Lynx much myself.
    Naval Warfare Discussion is dying on WAB

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Stan View Post
      UK helicopter industry 'will die in MoD cuts' - Telegraph

      This link you mean?

      I would rather we kept the jobs in the UK but the other options are good ones and off the shelf would be handy for a quick turn around. Dont like the Lynx much myself.
      That's the link! Thanks for that.

      I don't mind the Lynx per say, just don't like it at three times the cost of every other bugger, and no delivery until 2012.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by VarSity View Post
        That's the link! Thanks for that.

        I don't mind the Lynx per say, just don't like it at three times the cost of every other bugger, and no delivery until 2012.
        Just in time for an Olympic fly-pass

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        • #5
          wastelands has had this coming for years, they've been taking the piss for decades and whenever the government gets tetchy they bring out the 'skillsbase' and 'strategic need for a continuation of ability to produce helicopters' *******s that everyone falls for.

          i know that its not *******s, but the idea that wastelands are this font of knowledge and ability and that, should we be unable to buy abroad, they'll see us through is utter tripe.

          that said, i don't actually think we'll get much to replace it with.

          one has to ask though, exactly what is the reason we want a lynx replacement for - rather than a Chinook augmentation?

          (ie: Chinook has proved itself in the 'stan as the battle taxi of choice, Apache has the AH role covered in a way that FLynx couldn't touch, and sub-unit level UAV's promise to provide the reece/observation role that Lynx covers at a fraction of the price - maybe not right now, but FLlynx is a 30 year program)

          obviously this would require a massive reorganisation of the helicopter force with RAF and AAC fighting for control - and if the SH force was all RAF, then the AAC's chances of holding onto the AH force, tiny by comparrison, would be limited indeed.
          before criticizing someone, walk a mile in their shoes.................... then when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

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          • #6
            use the money to buy some Black Hawks for use in Iraq sort of Climates/areas and sorting out our Chinook situations.
            Naval Warfare Discussion is dying on WAB

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