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NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Gets New Order Despite Issues

NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Gets New Order Despite Issues

by | Jan 6, 2022 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Events, Finmeccanica, FOCUS Articles, France, GE, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Project Failures, Project Methodologies, Project Successes, Projections & Assessments, Public Partnering, R&D - Contracted, Rolls Royce, Simulation & Training, Testing & Evaluation

NH90: TTH & NFH (click to view full) The NH90 emerged from a requirement that created a NATO helicopter development and procurement agency in 1992 and, at almost the same time, established NH Industries (62.5% EADS Eurocopter, 32.5% AgustaWestland, and 5% Stork...
NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Gets New Order Despite Issues

EMALS/ AAG: Electro-Magnetic Launch & Recovery for Carriers

by | Dec 30, 2021 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Fighters & Attack, General Atomics, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Small Business, Specialty Aircraft, Surface Ships - Combat, Transport & Utility, University-related, USA

EMALS Components (click to view full) As the US Navy continues to build its new CVN-21 Gerald R. Ford Class carriers, few technologies are as important to their success as the next-generation EMALS (Electro-MAgnetic Launch System) catapult. The question is whether...
NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Gets New Order Despite Issues

Flexible G/ATORs: The USMC’s Multi-Mission AESA Ground Radars

by | Dec 24, 2021 | Americas - Other, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, FOCUS Articles, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, Procurement Innovations, Radars, USA

G/ATOR diorama (click to view full) The US military’s long run of unquestioned air superiority has led to shortcuts in mobile land-based air defenses, and the US Marines are no exception. A December 2005 release from Sen. Schumer’s office [D-NY] said that:...
NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Gets New Order Despite Issues

Canada’s CH-148 Cyclones: 4th Time Lucky?

by | Dec 7, 2021 | Asia - Other, Avionics, BAE, Britain/U.K., Canada, China, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, GE, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, Japan, L3 Communications, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Sensors & Guidance, Support & Maintenance, Testing & Evaluation, United Technologies, USA

CH-148 Cyclone (click to view full) Canada’s Maritime Helicopter Replacement Program has been a textbook military procurement program over its long history. Unfortunately, it has been a textbook example of what not to do. While Canada’s 50-year old Sea...
NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Gets New Order Despite Issues

Eurocopter’s EC665 Tiger HAD Helicopters

by | Dec 3, 2021 | Airbus, Ammunition, Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), FOCUS Articles, France, Germany, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Helicopters & Rotary, MBDA, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Anti-Armor, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Rockets, Rolls Royce, Sensors & Guidance

Tiger HAP & HAC (click to view full) Eurocopter’s Tiger had always had a very odd setup in that it came in two seemingly incomplete versions (HAP scout and HAC/UHT anti-tank), whose respective deficiencies severely limited multi-role flexibility and hence...