ftxag76 Posted May 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Army is halting the UH-72 Lakota production line http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g199YptEU0EwfUvsqS6KptdFJ-sQ?docId=CNG.3c0807831be18c405f1a468b66764294.431 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akscott60 Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocity173 Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 How do they go about saying it's the most successful helicopter program in the history of the Army? It hasn't done a damn thing! I like the aircraft but please, it's limited in what it can do. Can't do much of an air assault with it. No real room for MEDEVAC in the way we use it in the Army. It can sling load maybe a cow. It doesn't pack the punch or the flight performance of a block III Apache. So basically you have a decent VIP platform or possibly a OH platform. 58s cost 3 times as much to operate??? You gotta be kidding me.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphiteBlur Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 I still think that the right higher ups got tired of riding in the back of 60s and persuaded the army to build a new airframe that was supposed to be integrating lots of elements, but in reality they just got a nicer bird to ride around in as VIPs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yamer Posted May 17, 2013 Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 graphite is spot on. saw a MG get offloaded here at FAF the other day. theres one here all the time as the tradoc shuttle lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electron_si Posted May 17, 2013 Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 How do they go about saying it's the most successful helicopter program in the history of the Army? It hasn't done a damn thing! I like the aircraft but please, it's limited in what it can do. Can't do much of an air assault with it. No real room for MEDEVAC in the way we use it in the Army. It can sling load maybe a cow. It doesn't pack the punch or the flight performance of a block III Apache. So basically you have a decent VIP platform or possibly a OH platform. 58s cost 3 times as much to operate??? You gotta be kidding me.. When they say "most successful" i think they mean the actual Delivery Program itself. The army asked for so many 72's and set delivery gates and EADS met all of them. I think that is what they are referring to. Compared to the E model apache with its xmsn problems I don't think it was much of a competition with other army platform delivery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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