US approves sale of six MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Norway for 1 billion dollars.
The Seahawks will be delivered to the Norwegian Coast Guard and will replace some of Norway's failed NH90 helicopters.
The Norwegian Navy will still be left without helicopters.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/04/27/norway-requested-six-sikorsky-mh-60r-helicopters-and-the-us-agreed/
The NH90 disaster is just the low point in a series of procurement disasters. The MIC tried to keep its irrelevant tech up to date and knew that they could sell absolute garbage, thanks to Russia Tier corruption in the bureaucracy.
Let’s see: NH90, Puma, Ajax, Boxer, Eurofighter, A400, Brandenburg class, NG radios, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They have to stop right now. Trillions are being spent on these completely useless projects.
Amazing how they fricked up making that helicopter.
>The NH90 helicopters are so delayed that some systems that were ordered with it have gone out of production. This is a known problem, and the supplier is responsible for coming up with replacements, which has not happened for any of the most important systems for Norwegian helicopters, including those related to submarine hunting.
Boxer is making international sales and works fine though.
Boxer, Eurofighter, A400M and Brandenburg-class are fine.
Can we safely assume that this includes parts, maintenance, training, &etc?
I'd hope so for $1 billion. Whats even the shelf price?
Another newspaper said we had signed a four year contract for Norwegian airmen to receive training on Danish Seahawks in Denmark so I'm not too sure.
>NH-90 is so bad the Nords are paying the US a BILLION for 8 less than the original NH-90 contract
Spain bought 8 in December and payed 950. Nords are getting an entirely new variant with spare engines and parts.
>1 bil for 6 helos
what the frick lol, I remember frigates costing less.
6 helis and fifteen (15) engines.
There's no way a Crashhawk cost about 1 billy
Some more ragging on the NH90
>Upon delivery of the first NH90 helicopter, 800 faults were found with the helicopter.
>When the second IOC version arrived a year later, almost 800 faults were found with that version as well.
>Starting from 2017 Norway had received six NH90 helicopters, 9 years after they were supposed to be delivered and 16 years after the contract for the helicopters was signed.
>Some of the helicopters were incomplete versions that would have to be sent back for completion.
>Five out of the six helicopters were for the most time inoperable, awaiting maintenance or spare parts.
>The contract specified 430 flight hours a year.
>In 2017 the six helicopters achieved a combined 550 flight hours. Or 20% of target flight hours.
>Maintenance became were costly due to the helicopters having to be shipped to Italy, France or Germany for maintenance and upgrades due to different factories working on different parts.
>Upon delivery of the first NH90 helicopter, 800 faults were found with the helicopter.
>When the second IOC version arrived a year later, almost 800 faults were found with that version as well.
Same faults or new?
The report didn't specify. Could actually be the same since the delivery checks that were supposed to take four weeks took 9 and a half months due to to all the big and small problems they found.
If they send the helis without any fixes then I admire the audacity
Lmao I could see it happening
>Send incomplete helicopter
>Customer complains about other faults
>Take it back, upgrade it to complete version, send it to customer again without fixing any of the other problems
I remember doing tech-doc comments on a cargo vehicle from RMMV, mostly translation errors, wront terminology etc. So a shitload of those errors will be repetative, so we would make one point in the doc as an example of the error and say they have to change this through the whole shit instead of marking it through 1200 pages.
6 months later a new version comes back and they've changed the examples, nothing more
Maybe they fixed error, forgot the wrong wersion so they couldn't search for it and didn't feel like undoing the fix? Sounds like great company to work with, I hope they were at least cheap
Why does America hate their own marines so much?
The reason Norway held so long on to the NH90 is because the Seahawk doesn't come with any flotation device to keep it afloat if it ditches in the North Sea.
When Denmark asked the manufacturer about adding flotation devices to their Seahawks they were quoted "A two digit million dollar sum" and a one year delay on deliveries.