Internationale Helicopter ontwikkelingen

[Huzaar1]

Jaja, in een labaratorium oorlog is een dergelijke taak vast nuttig. In een plaatje waar de carrier voor is gemaakt en de praktijk is dit een lachertje.

Heli als carrier protection. Hmmhmm

[Harald]

Weapon wing integration keeps Wildcat on target for carrier protection role



The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) Wildcat HMA2 rotorcraft will be ready to defend the service's largest-ever warships from next year, with the integration of key new armaments proceeding on schedule, Leonardo Helicopters says.

An ongoing effort to add Thales Martlet air-to-surface missiles and MBDA Sea Venom anti-ship weapons has completed environmental testing and carriage trials aboard the 6t-class rotorcraft, following the integration of a Leonardo-designed Wildcat Weapon Wing.

Louis Wilson-Chalon, maritime marketing manager for Leonardo Helicopters UK, says the company is on track to have the enhanced Wildcat ready for deployment in support of the RN's first worldwide operational Carrier Strike Group deployment late next year. This "CSG21" activity will involve HMS Queen Elizabeth – the service's first of two 65,000t aircraft carriers, along with support ships and Royal Fleet Auxiliary assets.

"We will be ready to support the fleet," Wilson-Chalon says, confirming that the company has received a production contract to build weapon wings for the navy's Wildcat fleet. Firing trials with the Martlet have yet to be conducted, but the programme is on schedule, he says.

The RN's new carriers will operate with an embarked complement of Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning combat aircraft and Leonardo AW101 Merlin HM2 multi-mission rotorcraft, including airborne early warning examples being prepared via the Lockheed-led Crowsnest programme. Deployed aboard accompanying Type 45 destroyers and Type 23 frigates, Wildcats will provide anti-surface warfare protection for the carrier group.

Each weapon wing-equipped helicopter will be able to carry a maximum load of 20 Martlet or four Sea Venom missiles, or operate with a mixed fit of 10 and two, respectively. With a 13kg (29lb) launch weight, 3-5nm (6-9km) range and Mach 1.5 performance, the laser-guided Martlet is integrated using five-round canister launchers. The high-subsonic speed Sea Venom is 2.5m (8.2ft) long, weighs 120kg and can attack surface targets to a range of over 11nm.

To offset the added weight of carrying the new anti-surface weapons, Leonardo's aerofoil-equipped weapon wing provides 360kg of aerodynamic lift on each side of the rotorcraft, Wilson-Chalon says.

The RN has a fleet of 24 Wildcat HMA2s, with the British Army also using 28 of the type in a battlefield utility AH1 standard.

The navy showcased its future carrier strike capability from 28 February during a week-long visit to Liverpool by its second example, HMS Prince of Wales. The vessel will in early 2021 host a third and final series of flight trials with the F-35B, to be staged off the US East Coast, before also achieving operational readiness.

https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopters/weapon-wing-integration-keeps-wildcat-on-target-for-carrier-protection-role/137104.article

[Harald]

Boeing Reveals Its Contender To Be The Army's Future High-Speed Armed Scout Helicopter



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The new Boeing design, which the company does not appear to have its own name for at present, is a compound helicopter with a single six-bladed main rotor, a canted four-bladed tail rotor, and four-bladed pusher prop in the rear. A single General Electric T901 engine, with its air intake on the right side of the fuselage, is the primary source of power. The Army selected the T901 last year as the winner of its Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) and the service plans to use it first to re-engine AH-64s and UH-60 Black Hawks.

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Internal munitions bays on either side of the lower fuselage, along with a 20mm rotary-barrel cannon in a turret under the nose and nose-mounted sensor turret are also visible in the newly released concept art.

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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32442/boeing-reveals-its-contender-to-be-the-armys-future-high-speed-armed-scout-helicopter

[Harald]

Boeing Future Attack Reconnaissance Attack Aircraft   (Boeings FARA helicopter ontwerp... nice ..  .. Comanche 2 ) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8bXB3milTA&feature=emb_logo

[Harald]

The new @BellFlight UH-Y Venom and the @BellFlight AH-1Z Viper helicopters of the Czech Air Force will be delivered in a grey/green camouflage scheme.

https://twitter.com/DutchAviaPhoto/status/1234566616110817281/photo/1

[Harald]

HH-60W 'Jolly Green II' follows footprints of rescue giants

The Air Force named its newest combat rescue helicopter, the HH-60W, the "Jolly Green II," following the legendary tradition of the Vietnam-era HH-3E Jolly Green and HH-53 Super Jolly Green crews who pioneered the combat search and rescue mission.

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https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2096421/hh-60w-jolly-green-ii-follows-footprints-of-rescue-giants/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOgbD2Qb3w4

[Huzaar1]

Leasen opleiding ?  Leasen is gewoon leasen.

[Sparkplug]

NL is toch ook begonnen met Apaches door er een aantal te leasen?

Dat werd gedaan met de 12 stuks AH-64A, omdat de AH-64D in 1996 nog niet leverbaar was (30 stuks besteld in 1995) en er toch een kader moest worden opgeleid. Tenzij leasing t.b.v. opleiding gelijk staat aan leasing t.b.v. testen.

[Enforcer]

NL is toch ook begonnen met Apaches door er een aantal te leasen?

[Sparkplug]

heb?
Nee, zo werkt het niet.


Ik snap niet wat je niet snapt. De Fransen willen weten of het iets is. Dus ze willen die dingen uitproberen. Als je nog niet weet wat je wilt en je hebt ook geen organisatie die het apparaat in stand kan houden is een lease constructie het doodgewoonste en meest logische. Bijvooorbeeld het feit dat je niet zit te kijken met chinooks als je ze besluit niet aan te kopen en bij een lease contract zit ook onderhoud en kan er naargelang nodig iets in het contract worden inbegrepen of exclusief gemaakt.

Ik Snap je niet meer : )

Wat ik bedoel is dat de leasing voorwaarden niet gaan bepalen wat er wel of niet met de Chinook mag worden getest. Als leasing toch simpelweg het beste is, dan is het duidelijk en heb ik verder niets gezegd

[Huzaar1]

Dan moet Boeing en/of DoD wel goede voorwaarden hebben als het om leasing gaat.

heb?

De Franse luchtmacht moet alles kunnen testen ongeacht er wordt gekocht of geleased.

Nee, zo werkt het niet.


Ik snap niet wat je niet snapt. De Fransen willen weten of het iets is. Dus ze willen die dingen uitproberen. Als je nog niet weet wat je wilt en je hebt ook geen organisatie die het apparaat in stand kan houden is een lease constructie het doodgewoonste en meest logische. Bijvooorbeeld het feit dat je niet zit te kijken met chinooks als je ze besluit niet aan te kopen en bij een lease contract zit ook onderhoud en kan er naargelang nodig iets in het contract worden inbegrepen of exclusief gemaakt.

Ik Snap je niet meer : )

[Sparkplug]

Ik snap niet wat je niet snapt :)

Ze gaan testen en dan is het mij volkomen duidelijk dat je in een situatie waarin je nog niets zeker weet die apparaten leased en niet koopt. Je snapt toch wel dat het een testfase is?

Dan moet Boeing en/of DoD wel goede voorwaarden hebben als het om leasing gaat. De Franse luchtmacht moet alles kunnen testen ongeacht er wordt gekocht of geleased.

[Huzaar1]

Is leasing nu wel een goede oplossing? Als zij eenmaal met de Chinook vliegen, dan zullen ze zeer waarschijnlijk inzien dat zij deze capaciteit langer nodig hebben dan de lease periode.

Ik snap niet wat je niet snapt :)

Ze gaan testen en dan is het mij volkomen duidelijk dat je in een situatie waarin je nog niets zeker weet die apparaten leased en niet koopt. Je snapt toch wel dat het een testfase is?

[Sparkplug]

French Air Force Studying Chinook Buy, Caracal Replacement

The French Air Force is exploring the potential leasing of Boeing CH-47 Chinooks in an evaluation that could precede a potential heavy lift helicopter fleet purchase.

Commanders are looking at an acquisition of a heavy lift helicopter to fulfill a longstanding capability gap within the French armed forces and meet demands from the country's special forces.

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https://aviationweek.com/shows-events/air-warfare-symposium/french-air-force-studying-chinook-buy-caracal-replacement

Is leasing nu wel een goede oplossing? Als zij eenmaal met de Chinook vliegen, dan zullen ze zeer waarschijnlijk inzien dat zij deze capaciteit langer nodig hebben dan de lease periode.

[Harald]

French Air Force Studying Chinook Buy, Caracal Replacement

The French Air Force is exploring the potential leasing of Boeing CH-47 Chinooks in an evaluation that could precede a potential heavy lift helicopter fleet purchase.

Commanders are looking at an acquisition of a heavy lift helicopter to fulfill a longstanding capability gap within the French armed forces and meet demands from the country's special forces.

"The air force is looking to get a few aircraft through leasing to try out this sort of asset before proceeding with an acquisition," Col. Bruno Paupy, deputy chief of plans at the French Air Force, told the International Military Helicopter conference here on Feb. 25.

France is one of a handful of European countries that do not operate heavy lift helicopters, instead relying on types like the NHIndustries NH90, the Airbus H225M Caracal and Super Puma for troop lift and battlefield support operations. But France's recent experience in Central Africa has prompted the need for a logistics heavy lifter.

Britain's Royal Air Force currently has three CH-47 Chinooks deployed to Mali supporting French troops in the region since July 2018.

European industry also does not offer a heavy lift helicopter in the class of the Chinook, and studies for a notional Future Transport Helicopter led by then-Eurocopter in conjunction with Boeing were shelved around 2011-12. Neighboring Germany is also looking to replace its heavy lift Sikorsky CH-53G with either the CH-47 Chinook or the CH-53K King Stallion.

Paupy said he was looking for cooperation from neighboring countries to "learn" how to get the best out of the platform. But a fleet acquisition was unlikely to occur before 2025, in line with the country's military programming law.

The purchase would form part of the French air force's rotary-wing transformation in readiness for the 2030s. This will see the existing fleet of AS555 Fennecs—the military version of the twin-engine AS355 Twin-Squirrel/Ecureuil—replaced with the Airbus H160M Guepard. It will be used by the air force in the air defense, search-and-rescue and special forces missions, with some equipped for inflight refueling. The H160M is being purchased by all three of the French armed forces through the HIL Joint Light Helicopter program, although Paupy expects the air force to be the last of the services to receive the aircraft.

The air force's H225Ms will go through an upgrade known as Standard 2, removing obsolescence, updating the rotorcraft's self-protection systems and adding the Link 16 datalink, which the aircraft currently lacks.

The air force is hoping to supplement the Caracal fleet with the H225Ms currently operated by the French Army, particularly once special forces derivatives of the NH90 Caiman enter service. Air force-operated Puma helicopters could be replaced by repurposed commercial H225s such as those stored by oil and gas operators.

Beyond that, France is looking for a "new generation rotary-wing to replace the Caracal in around 2040," Paupy told the conference.

"What is important is that we build that together with the Future Combat Air System, so it forms part of that system of systems," he added.

Joint concept studies for the HM/NG are at an early stage, but Paupy hopes that all three French armed forces could sign joint requirements for such a platform in the next couple of years.

https://aviationweek.com/shows-events/air-warfare-symposium/french-air-force-studying-chinook-buy-caracal-replacement