Internationale Helicopter ontwikkelingen

Gestart door Harald, 01/03/2017 | 13:48 uur

bergd

Was dat niet wat voor de Belgen geweest ipv de EC145?

Harald

Warsaw signs Hellfire missile contract to arm AW149 fleet

Poland has signed a contract to buy Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles, defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced on 30 May.

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/warsaw-signs-hellfire-missile-contract-to-arm-aw149-fleet/153494.article



Poland buys 800 Hellfire missiles to arms its new attack helicopters

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2023/05/30/poland-buys-800-hellfire-missiles-to-arms-its-new-attack-helicopters/

CitaatPolish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said in a tweet Tuesday that the weapons are meant to arm ?our AW149 support helicopters, and, eventually, the AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters.?

Sparkplug

Hoever staat het grote Britse NMH-project nu?

24 mei 2023 Categorie: Militair, Nieuwe toestellen / Tests, Nieuws

Er is enige beweging in het Britse NMH (New Medium Helicopter) project rond de aankoop van 44 medium militaire helikopters, maar geen positieve beweging. Nadat Leonardo reeds in maart 2023 bevestigde dat de drie overgebleven NMH-kanshebbers ge?nformeerd waren door de Britse Defensie dat de tijdslijn voor het voltooien en uitgeven van de finale specificaties vertraagd was en ergens voor eind van het tweede kwartaal 2023 mocht worden verwacht blijkt deze tijdslijn nog verre van zeker.

Het is afgelopen tijd in de Defensiecommissie van het Britse Parlement duidelijk geworden dat er nog geen data goedgekeurd zijn voor de toekenning van het productiecontract voor de ? 1 miljard ($ 1,15 miljard) New Medium Helicopter (NMH) acquisitie. Tot nu was verwacht dat nieuwe helikopters vanaf 2025 in gebruik zouden worden genomen, om samen te vallen met het uit dienst nemen van de 23 RAF Puma HC2-helikopters.

De Britse Defensie gaat ervan uit dat de lifecycle van de Airbus Puma HC2 helikopters kan worden verlengd tot 2027 of zelfs tot 2028 en zal worden bepaald wanneer de data voor het NMH-project worden vastgelegd.

Het waarom over de vertraging van het dossier is niet duidelijk. Sommige militairen speculeren dat Defensie over andere prioriteiten boven het NMH-project zou favoriseren, een budgetprobleem dus. Waar dit project werd voorgesteld als de grootste Europese helikopterorder voor 2023 is het meer dan waarschijnlijk dat het order naar 2024 zal slippen.



Drie kandidaten

Uit de voorselectie kwamen drie kandidaten:

  • Airbus H175M - met productie in de UK waarbij Boeing de service-partner in de UK zou worden voor dit toestel (zie foto boven - ? Airbus Helicopters)
  • Leonardo AW149 - met productie in de UK (zie foto hiernaast - ? Leonardo Helicopters)
  • Sikorsky S-70M Black Hawk - worden in Polen worden vervaardigd. Maar verwacht wordt dat Sikorsky in zijn finaal voorstel verregaande economische compensaties voor deze deal zal voorstellen.


Wordt ongetwijfeld vervolgd...

https://helispot.nl/hs/page/detail.asp?oid=C3h9D2C3&sub=logboek
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.


Umbert

Citaat van: Sparkplug op 13/05/2023 | 22:36 uur
Vanaf 2031 wordt de Tiger buiten dienst gesteld en moet in 2038 zijn afgerond.

Onderstaande link is gratis te lezen.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-tiger-kampfhubschrauber-sollen-ersetzt-werden-a-40e6f557-7451-4789-ada4-cc91c7d18a62
Gezien de komst van de Chinook zal ik er niet raar van opkijken als binnenkort de Apache AH-64E zijn opwachting gaat maken in Duitse uitvoering.
Ze hebben goed hun ogen de kost gegeven hoe Nederland het doet met beide types en zijn van mening wat hier kan kan daar ook.

Harald

 :omg: inzetbaarheid heel erg laag !!
Maar 9 van de 51 helicopters zijn inzetbaar.

Sparkplug

#1068
Citaat van: Suddeutsche Zeitung op 13/05/2023 | 20:41 uur
Bundeswehr schickt Kampfhubschrauber ?Tiger? in den Ruhestand
via @sz https://sz.de/1.5855488

Vanaf 2031 wordt de Tiger buiten dienst gesteld en moet in 2038 zijn afgerond.

Onderstaande link is gratis te lezen.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-tiger-kampfhubschrauber-sollen-ersetzt-werden-a-40e6f557-7451-4789-ada4-cc91c7d18a62
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

jurrien visser (JuVi op Twitter)

Bye bye! (een oud forumlid heeft momenteel vast buikpijn)

Bundeswehr schickt Kampfhubschrauber ?Tiger? in den Ruhestand
via @sz https://sz.de/1.5855488

Harald

Half Of Night Stalker Black Hawks, Little Birds Replaced With High-Speed Types By 2030s  ( Bell's V-280 voor de Blackhawks en Little birds )

The Army?s elite 160th SOAR is set for a major transition, but it will retain some MH-60s and AH/MH-6s for certain missions.



The U.S. Army?s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is expecting to replace more than 50 percent of its MH-60 Black Hawk and AH/MH-6 Little Bird fleets starting in the early 2030s. Special operations-specific variants of a new Bell tilt-rotor aircraft the Army is acquiring and of the service?s still-to-decided advanced armed scout helicopter are set to supplant significant numbers of MH-60s and AH/MH-6s, respectively.

At least some versions of the Little Bird, possibly including an advanced hybrid-electric derivative, and of the Black Hawk are still expected to remain in service due to the niche capabilities they offer U.S. special operations forces.

Geoffrey Downer, head of U.S. Special Operations Command?s (SOCOM) Program Executive Office for Rotary Wing (PEO-RW), provided details on the future of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment?s helicopter fleets to The War Zone and other others at a briefing at an annual conference now known as SOF Week yesterday. In addition to Black Hawks and Little Birds, the 160th ? known as the Night Stalkers ? also operates MH-47 Chinook helicopters. It is also worth noting that the Night Stalkers? Little Birds can be configured for the light attack role, where they are referred to as AH-6s, or configured as light transports, which are designated MH-6s. Its MH-60s are primarily transports, but can also be configured as more heavily armed gunships known as Direct Action Penetrators (DAP).

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voor het gehele arukel, zie onderstaande LINK

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/half-of-night-stalker-black-hawks-little-birds-replaced-with-high-speed-types-by-2030s

Harald

UAE government ends contract for 12 Airbus H225Ms  ( NO-deal ! dus, Franse arrogantie ? )

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has canceled its $879 million deal with Airbus for 12 H225M Caracal multirole helicopters. The cancellation was confirmed by Muammar Abdulla Abushehab, defense and security industry affairs sector chief for the Tawazun council, in an exclusive interview with Breaking Defense.



Abushehab stated that the UAE found it difficult to continue with the contract due to the high lifecycle cost, limitations in adapting to modular designs of future mission requirements, and the complex technical proposal. He clarified that the decision was not politically motivated, but was based on financial and technical reasons.

In addition, the failure to achieve in-country value goals was another factor in the decision to terminate the contract. Abushehab stated that the company lacked the serious motivation to respond to the demands of the UAE government in order to meet the pressing requirements.

The deal for the 12 H225M Caracal helicopters was ordered in December 2021, during the French president?s visit, for an estimated price of $879 million. The H225M is the military version of the H225 and can be mounted with different sets of weaponry, from machine guns to rockets to anti-ship missiles. The helicopter is in service with several air forces.

https://alert5.com/2023/05/11/uae-government-ends-contract-for-12-airbus-h225ms/#more-97498

https://breakingdefense.com/2023/05/uae-cancels-e800m-military-helicopter-deal-with-airbus-government-official/

Lynxian


Harald

CitaatCroatia will donate its 14 Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters to then Ukrainian Air Force in exchange for Blackhawk helicopters from the U.S. according to Jutarnji.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1592760416157171713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1592760416157171713%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

Kroatie doet goede zaken, in 2018 hadden ze al 4 stuks UH-60M's gekocht, nu een deal met de VS voor nog meer Blackhawks voor de ruil , levering van Russische heli's naar Oekranie.

Harald

Biden administration clears the sale of six AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters to Czech Republic

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Czech Republic for the refurbishment and modernization of six AH-1Z and two UH-1Y Excess Defense Article (EDA) helicopters. The sale, which is valued at up to $650 million, also includes related equipment and services.



The Czech Republic has requested to buy equipment and services to refurbish its fleet of helicopters, which includes the installation of twenty-two T-700 GE 401C engines, fourteen Honeywell Embedded Global Positioning System Inertial Navigation Systems (EGIs) with Precise Positioning Service (PPS), four M240 machine guns, and twenty-four ARC-210 COMSEC radios. In addition, the sale includes communication equipment, electronic warfare systems, support equipment, spare engine containers, flight training devices, Composite Maintenance trainer, spare and repair parts, tools and test equipment, U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistics and program support.

https://alert5.com/2023/05/04/biden-administration-clears-the-sale-of-six-ah-1z-and-uh-1y-helicopters-to-czech-republic/#more-97460

Jooop


Benji87

#1060
Air Force Admits New HH-60Ws Rescue Helicopters Not ?Particularly Helpful? In China Fight

The USAF is facing a huge problem of rescuing aircrews, especially those flying stealth aircraft, in very contested areas far from any bases.

The U.S. Air Force?s fleet of Sikorsky HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopters will not be particularly helpful in the Chinese area of operations, one of the service?s top procurement officers has asserted. With planned HH-60W procurement already trimmed back, the Air Force is instead looking at several nontraditional options that would be able to recover downed aircrew from deep within contested environments, such as those that would be expected in any kind of major military confrontation with China.

This is a glaring and complex issue that The War Zone has been highlighting for years now, but this official admission, paired with recent procurement choices by the USAF, make it clear that it is now becoming an undeniable truth within the DoD.

The latest details about the HH-60W and future plans for CSAR came to light yesterday, during a hearing on Air Force modernization by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services' Subcommittee on Air-Land. The key question on the status of the HH-60W and future CSAR plans was raised by Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic Senator from Connecticut. This is the same state in which the Jolly Green II is built by Sikorsky. That historic firm is now part of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Sikorsky was awarded a contract to build a new CSAR helicopter fleet to replace the aging HH-60G Pave Hawk in 2014. The award was initially for 113 Jolly Green IIs, but changing Air Force requirements, competing priorities, and budget constraints reduced that to 108 and then to even smaller sizes. At the time of writing, the Air Force only has 65 of these helicopters on order. As of September last year, 23 of the 65 purchased Jolly Green IIs had been delivered to the Air Force, as part of a program expected to be worth $4.1 billion in total.

Blumenthal stated that he was very concerned about the Combat Rescue Helicopter, the program that is providing the Air Force with the HH-60W, which conducted its first operational deployment earlier this year, to an undisclosed location in East Africa.

Blumenthal?s particular coterminatencern related to the Air Force?s plan to term?nate the program, a reference to plans to shelve the purchase of 10 HH-60Ws in the 2024 Fiscal Year effectively reversing a decision from the previous year?s budget, which you can read about here.

Even with those extra 10 helicopters, Blumenthal remarked, the Air Force will ultimately only have 75 out of the 108 [HH-60Ws] that are thought to be necessary.

Andrew Hunter, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, refuted the claim that production of the HH-60W was being terminated and confirmed that the service still has resources for 20 aircraft not yet on contract.? He added that the Air Force was currently ?working through getting those 20 [helicopters] that have been appropriated on contract with Sikorsky,  with a decision on that possible in the next few days. Once that happens, Hunter confirmed, the Air Force will be headed toward a total fleet of 85 HH-60Ws.

This is still significantly below the original plans to buy 113 HH-60Ws to replace the service?s increasingly rickety HH-60G Pave Hawks, which have been worn down after two decades of supporting the Global War On Terror.

Nevertheless, the Air Force seems to think that the reduced fleet will be enough for the time being, before new CSAR capabilities are added. Effectively, the Jolly Green II was developed and procured for a kind of lower-intensity warfare, or now a dated higher threat environment, that is fast becoming less relevant for the Pentagon as a whole, forcing a rethink of the entire CSAR mission. It?s worth noting, too, that the process of getting the HH-60W in the first place was notably protracted, leading to the helicopter prompting an immediate requirement for a series of major upgrades as a byproduct.

?This [HH-60W] fleet is for something very specific, it was purchased for Iraq and Afghanistan, explained Lt. Gen. Richard Moore, Jr., the Air Force?s Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs. It is not particularly helpful in the Chinese AOR [area of operations].
Lt. Gen. Moore added that there was a big distinction between CSAR the mission flown by the HH-60W, which involves plucking endangered isolated personnel to safety in highly contested environments and the broader mission spectrum of personnel recovery. The Pentagon defines the latter mission set as the sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to prepare for and execute the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.
There are literally thousands of platforms in the Department of Defense that can do personnel recovery, Lt. Gen. Moore added.

With a continuing commitment to what officials termed the moral imperative of the CSAR mission, and of not leaving anybody behind, the Air Force is now having to address new challenges, specifically those introduced by the prospect of a confrontation or even full-scale conflict involving China in the Asia Pacific theater.

After all, there is a huge difference between a CSAR posture in an environment like Afghanistan, with established bases nearby and a strictly limited anti-aircraft threat. In comparison, a campaign in the Pacific would very likely see the Air Force CSAR assets included operating from distributed locations very far away from each other, under constant threat of attack both in the air and on the ground, and with an overarching requirement to penetrate deep inside denied territory. Clearly, while the HH-60W could still offer some useful support capabilities in the Pacific, a relatively short-legged standard helicopter is very limited in this kind of context.
The USAF's migration to a combat aircraft inventory dominated by low-observable (stealthy) aircraft that are built to fly into heavily contested areas, fighting their way in and out if necessary, has also changed the CSAR equation. How can an HH-60W be expected to survive, even with low-flying tactics and electronic warfare and self protection capabilities, in an area where a top-of-the-line, far faster, stealth combat aircraft could not.

For an aircraft like the B-21 Raider stealth bomber or the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) manned platform, which feature greater combat ranges than current stealthy tactical jets and can survive very deep inside enemy territory for long periods of time, the very idea of CSAR becomes even more bewildering.

Stealthy F-35s are increasingly dominating the USAF's inventory, with B-21 and NGAD combat jets on the way too, making CSAR all that more challenging. (USAF)
Regardless, integrated air defense systems, which are becoming far more intertwined, complex, and capable, have made the prospects of a standard helicopter making it through such a mission much less probable, and the problem is only getting worse. Combining many assets to enable the survival or the CSAR helicopter force, assuming it could even reach a downed crew operating over such vast distances, is also very risky in such a deadly environment. It can turn a bad event into an outright major disaster.

Recalling the infamous BAT 21 rescue effort during the Vietnam War, Lt. Gen. James C. Slife, the Air Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, also stated at the hearing yesterday that ?No matter how dedicated you are, if you?re not in a platform that?s survivable to the threat environment, you end up losing more people trying to recover somebody than the person you lost, to begin with.
The bigger question then is just what kind of platform, as well as tactics and strategies, could supplement the HH-60W for contested CSAR in the future.

Were actively looking at nontraditional ways in order to fulfill that moral imperative of leaving nobody behind, Lt. Gen. Slife confirmed, without providing more details of what kind of platforms were being considered.
Lt. Gen. Slife did, however, state that both crewed and uncrewed CSAR solutions were on the table, among ?several options.?
What seems clear is that the next generation of Air Force CSAR platforms will not look much like the familiar HH-60G and HH-60W.
Lt. Gen. Slife continued: ?I think the one thing we can say is that helicopters ? and I have 3,000 hours as a helicopter pilot ? that fly at 115 knots refueled by C-130s with pararescue men that ride a hoist up and down is probably not the answer in our most stressing scenarios.?

This is not the first time in recent weeks that the issue of trimming back HH-60W orders in light of the increasingly hazardous nature of the CSAR mission has come up.

At a Pentagon briefing in March ahead of the Fiscal Year 2024 budget rollout, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall added more details on the earlier decision to truncate purchases of the new rescue helicopters.?There are a lot of other assets around that, if somebody goes down at sea, for example, we could use to pick them up,? Kendall said. ?We?re going to do it [the CSAR mission] with existing assets, either our own or provided by other military departments.?

?The scenarios that we?re most worried about are not the same as they once were,? Kendall continued. ?When we were doing counterinsurgencies, and we were losing pilots in those kinds of situations, the needs were different. The acts of aggression like we?re seeing in Europe, or we might see [in] the Pacific ? put us in a very different scenario.?
But Kendall also said there was nothing else new in the service?s latest budget proposal regarding other concepts for CSAR.
Clearly, however, these discussions are already going on, albeit apparently still at a very early stage. Otherwise, there could be capabilities, even in a very small capacity, in the classified realm, but that would not provide the mass needed to impact CSAR on a broad level in a major conflict, where multiple aircrews will likely be shot down over a broad area.
It?s hard to know what kind of platform options might be being considered, but it seems likely they extend far beyond traditional helicopters and even tiltrotors, the latter of which offer greater speed and range, but which will increasingly fall short of the requirements for operating in the most contested airspace. Still, in CSAR, speed is key. For every minute a crew is on the ground, their chances of survival plummet. There are also survivability advantages with that speed. The V-22 Osprey has shone in the aircrew recovery mission operationally and the Air Force already has an aircraft fully kitted out for penetrating into hostile airspace in the CV-22 variant. This prompts questions about why these advantages were not considered when recapitalizing the Pave Hawk fleet? Cost clearly was an issue, but saving money just to result in a far less applicable available mission set doesn't make much sense.

The USAF could look to additional CV-22s and piggyback on the Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program that now will be leveraging a variant of the tilt-rotor V-280 Valor. This seems outright logical if not inevitable at this point, but these aircraft would still have trouble penetrating deep into enemy airspace, but at least they have the range and enhanced speed to have a better shot at getting there at all.

We have examined in great depth decades of work to produce exotic aircraft capable of penetrating deep into enemy airspace for special operations and aircrew retrieval applications. This shadowy history, which you can read all about in this two-part series here and here, remains a question mark in the CSAR equation ? both then and now.
But we do know that stealthy transport aircraft have gone from obscure niche concepts to centerstage in the USAF's collective consciousness in recent years as current transport aircraft are also vulnerable, even far from a core enemy target area, to modern air defenses.
The possibility of aircraft that combine jet speeds, some low-observable features, and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities is also being more widely considered. Stil, this is likely many years away ? likely decades ? from becoming a reality.
Bell's ambitious High-Speed VTOL concept that combined jet speeds with tiltrotor technology could be part of the answer, but it's still far off. (Bell)
There is also the glaring question of stealth helicopters, examples of which were used successfully in the raid to kill or capture Bin Laden. If this technology exists, why has it not been applied to the critical CSAR mission? Even basing stealthy helicopters forward aboard more survivable ships could help with some of the range and survivability concerns.
There have been previous proposals involving autonomous ?air taxi? type recovery systems, which could be included among the uncrewed CSAR options the Air Force is now looking at.
Connected to this is the Air Force?s ongoing Agility Prime program, working with commercial industry to explore the concept of flying cars and what it would take to get designs like this rapidly into the air. In Air Force parlance, these flying cars are normally known as eVTOLs, or electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.

Meanwhile, back in 2019, the Air Force Research Laboratory issued a call for proposals for a potential air taxi system that could be airdropped from a cargo plane or helicopter to downed aircrew, and that would then fly them to safety, carrying up to four at a time. A small, ultra-quiet autonomous air vehicle with short or vertical take-off and landing capabilities could be one way of getting imperiled personnel out of combat zones discretely, although the issue of safely delivering the air taxi to them in the first place remains.
There are also major questions about whether these kinds of vehicles would be able to operate over the kinds of ranges likely in an Asia Pacific scenario, even if this means just getting to a safer area for a traditional platform to retrieve the crew. Just how survivable they could be in the first place in such a hostile environment is another major question that needs to be answered. Regardless, they could be a useful capability, even if just for a limited set of circumstances.
A computer-generated concept showing the Bell Nexus, a commercial air taxi rotorcraft the company has said will initially be manned, but will eventually be capable of autonomous operation. The Air Force has, in the past, said that these sorts of developments in the urban air mobility sector could help support its work on an autonomous rescue aircraft, Bell
These kinds of concepts often have Cold War precedents, including the U.S. Marines Corps? efforts to develop small single-person helicopters and even ultra-light fixed-wing aircraft that could be inflated like a balloon. None of these proved to be practical, but the technological advances that have been made since then could make such propositions more practical today. There is even a possibility that even more novel concepts, such as jetpacks or rocket belts could be due for a comeback in this specific context, but they have, at present, very limited range.
The Cold War-era XROE-1 Rotorcycle, an ultra-light, compact, easily portable, and foldable one-person helicopter:

Other similarly exotic concepts for CSAR have been explored in the past, including the Rapid Aerial Extraction System (RAES), proposed by U.S. defense contractor Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI).
Screen captures MTSI released from a video taken from its demonstration of a Rapid Aerial Extraction System prototype, involving a dummy, in February 2019. MTSI
Simply put, RAES involves dropping a line to a downed pilot before yanking them off the ground and towing them to safety. This is not an altogether new idea, with similar systems having emerged during the Cold War. As we discussed in the past, a new take on the concept could offer significant advantages in reliability and safety, as well as being something that could be fairly easily installed on a wide range of aircraft.
In one computer-generated video presentation, MTSI showed the RAES installed in a pod-mounted form on an Air Force A-10 attack jet. In a contested warfare scenario, other options could potentially involve RAES being integrated on a stealthier crewed or even uncrewed aircraft.

When it comes to the vast Pacific, where 'tanker bridges' that span thousands of miles will be needed to get tactical jets and other combat aircraft into any position to impact a conflict, something with great range beyond anything with vertical landing capability may be needed for SAR/CSAR. This is where flying boats and seaplanes may come in.
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is still working on putting its MC-130 Commando IIs on floats. These aircraft are designed to penetrate at low levels into enemy airspace and could survive on the outer edges of contested areas. They could land on water in some conditions and provide air-dropped gear to downed crews where they can not land. Operating from forward bases basically anywhere,no runway needed also helps speed reaction time.
Far less optimized for contested operations, Japan's US-2 flying boat, is also a potential solution that is available 'off the shelf' but totally lacks the MC-130's deep and pricey sensor, communications, and survivability upgrades. Still, it is better suited than a notional MC-130 on floats for rescue operations across a broad maritime area with a better ability to land at sea in rougher conditions.

Then there are the various possibilities for extracting aircrew from hostile environments using altogether less orthodox tactics. In the past, for example, the Air Force has even encouraged the idea of stealing enemy aircraft as a means to escape, while the possibility of using networks of partisans or sympathizers in denied areas might also come back into vogue if the prospects of physically racing to the rescue simply become too problematic.
All in all, there appears to finally be a realization as to the real challenges the CSAR mission represents in this new era of aerial combat within the USAF. At least they are now openly discussing what will come after today?s traditional CSAR platforms that are unlikely to be able to perform all of their missions in future large-scale conflicts. And once again, the challenge to meeting this ?moral imperative? is further driven by the fact that, in these kinds of scenarios, stealthy aircraft are likely to be flying much deeper into denied areas that are far riskier than any experienced in the past.
This, in a nutshell, is the paradox of fielding such aircraft in the first place: If stealth aircraft are designed especially to fly into denied areas, there?s always going to be a risk they come down in those same areas, leaving aircrew requiring rescue from some of the most hazardous environments imaginable.
This is a hugely important but very 'unsexy' topic to tackle, but it's a byproduct of a much larger USAF strategy that needs to be addressed, and soon.
Hopefully, that will happen and it will be interesting to see what kinds of CSAR concepts ultimately emerge from what are becoming an increasingly demanding set of requirements.

Bron: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/air-force-admits-new-hh-60ws-rescue-helicopters-not-particularly-helpful-in-china-fight

Mega interesante ontwikkeling op het gebied van helikopters en hun toekomstige inzet gebied. Dit zou wel een flinke zij stap richting stealth helikopters kunnen opleveren