The news has changed today. Entire fleet to be retired in favour of Blackhawks. I'd post a link, but I don't think I can.
www.skynews.com.au
Yep you can post links. There's nothing stopping you. It's common knowing now.
IIRC some time ago (likely several years now) a restriction was added so that posters had to have a post count of 10+ in order to add links to a post. This was done after a spate of spammers hitting the forum.
That's what I understood. I don't post much.
But you have also realize that this also means that at least we can keep our NH90's flying when we want them unlike some other operators. As I mentioned in a post in the geostrategic section , the NH90 is very expensive to fly, so the question would be will the government come up with the extra operational funding as well.Interesting times, it should also be noted that one of our NH-90's has become the first NH-90 to accumulate 2000 flight hours. The next NH90 to achieve this milestone will also be one of ours. Which probably indicates that our small fleet is being over worked, buying a few of the younger lower hour Aussie NH90's might be a really good idea.
A RNZAF NH90 First to Reach 2,000 Flight Hours
Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 TTH serial 3302 was the first in the world of its type to reach 2,000 flying hourswww.helis.com
Buying additional frames doesn’t mean increasing operations it just means spreading the existing tasking over more frames, this will probably reduce the maintenance cost.
Or possibly buy enough additional frames to part out and avoid some of the expensive supply chain?Interesting times, it should also be noted that one of our NH-90's has become the first NH-90 to accumulate 2000 flight hours. The next NH90 to achieve this milestone will also be one of ours. Which probably indicates that our small fleet is being over worked, buying a few of the younger lower hour Aussie NH90's might be a really good idea.
A RNZAF NH90 First to Reach 2,000 Flight Hours
Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 TTH serial 3302 was the first in the world of its type to reach 2,000 flying hours
Buying additional frames doesn’t mean increasing operations it just means spreading the existing tasking over more frames, this will probably reduce the maintenance cost.
That could be a worthwhile justification to explore ... to acquire "several" airframes/helos primarily for spares (at a reduced cost therefore reduced capital charge and depreciation costs to the NZDF budget - would require a "small" increase to overall budget to cover this), with the potential to also acquire "several" more airframes (non-flyable) to replace the six SH-2F's (used as training aids) at the RNZAF Ground Training Wing!
hahahah.... hahaha.... breathe Nighthawk breathe in through the nose out through the mouth.... breathe Bwhahahaha...Does this mean the RNZAF could potentially purchase some of the lower hour MRH-90s seeing as there aren't enough to go around? Maybe we could get a good deal like the seasprites again
why wouldn’t they egress out the rear ramp? The gpmgs could be providing covering fire as the soldiers go out the back, they couldn’t safely use the door guns with troops exiting the same doors.
You can rear ramp it. But its still limiting. And the tail rotor means you have to stream to one side which as a section setting up all round d on the drop is not optimal. Workable but still limiting. But black hawk you de plane both sides and near enough have all round d. And airbus gives the gunners the massive door area that they dont need in comparison to the window on a blackhawk but is too small for troops with packs on to get past and your crossing his arcs while you unloading. Its just a shit layout. Its an after thought which for military utility transport with assault transport as a primary role is way too much of an after thought
Yes you can deplane by the ramp, but the tail rotor is a rather dangerous hazard. The USMC emplane /deplane their CH-53E via the tail ramp and they don't have the same problem because as you will see in the video below, the tail rotor is quite high. The video shows them emplaning a squad into the aircraft.
Interesting to see the NH90 doing a rolling takeoff, is that standard operating procedure at their home air base (Ohakea) too?
I don't know. I haven't seen one in the flesh yet. Would've been a bit hard to do in the old Irowhokka.
