Was reading this excellent blog the other day when the issue of military helicopters came up(it always seems to come up doesn't it)? joe.
The Aussies are forced into taking second- hand US ones and the British have been told the cannot have any at all!
Its amazing how few helicopters (& ships) actually exist. At any given point every military, Aid and NGO agency is flying around in somebody else's aircraft. It is of course COST. AK 47's are cheap, Sea King helicopters are not.
The photo was taken when a colleague and I managed to blag our way onto a Military search and Rescue helicopter for the day.
It was a fantastic day flying on one of the TWO aircraft in the unit, they were both around 30 years old at the time and this was 8 years ago! It had crashed and been repaired, something that doesn`t happen with pc`s tv`s or pretty much anything these days.
Several years ago, the issue of cost arose in the purchase of several new Chieftan tanks by the UK military. Essentially they go about 50mph ANYWHERE with a crew of 4. It was pointed out that for the same money as one tank, they could purchase 625 Fiat Panda 4x4's. These small cars could hold 2 crew and go ALMOST ANYWHERE faster than the tank.
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that would only work if the enemy were in a fleet of Citreon 2CV's
The 2 CV`s were made for this life!
Imagine the boost for the auto industry.
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