Moderadores: Lepanto, poliorcetes, Edu, Orel
Ahora Alemania y Francia están hablando de desarrollar sustituto del Tigre.
7. Airbus Helicopters Tigre ‘HAPless in Seattle’
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While the Opel Tigra car, developed by Germany, France and Spain, is a huge success, its rotary-craft (almost) namesake (created by the same nations) has proved a huge disappointment. It’s a bit of push to blame the Tigre purely on France, but as it’s now under the Airbus Helicopters label (headquarters at Marseille Provence Airport), it’s fair game. To be fair, Spain and Germany, must shoulder some of the responsibility for what has been described as ‘a Ford attack helicopter at Lamborghini prices‘. Development was very slow, the requirement was issued in 1984 yet the type didn’t enter service until 2003 (even then it couldn’t do much). Integration of weapons systems proved slow and VERY expensive. Only one export customer bought the Tigre (or Tiger as other nations know it), the Australian Army. The first two helicopters were delivered to Australia in 2004. Full operating capability was planned for 2011, in reality it didn’t happen until 2016. In 2012, after multiple incidents with cockpit fumes that endangered aircrew, Australian pilots refused to fly the Tiger until all safety concerns were resolved. In 2016, an Australian Defence White Paper announced that the Tiger helicopters would be replaced with other armed reconnaissance aircraft in the mid 2020s – hardly a long life for such an expensive acquisition (the US Army have flown Apaches since 1986, and in updated form the type remains in production today). Issues cited by the Australian Paper included the shipping time of sending parts across the world for repair, a lack of commonality with other Tiger variants and the high maintenance cost of the engines. In 2013 prices a French HAD cost US$49m a pop (the 2014 unit price of the far, far more capable AH-64E was US$35.5M). It’s hard to know how they got it so wrong as France is great at building helicopters and their military equipment also tends to be first-rate. Perhaps the difficulty of the task was underestimated- or the failure of the partners to agree on a single variant is to blame, whatever the reason, it ended up as a very costly way to not buy Apaches.
poliorcetes escribió:Una malvada descripción de los tigres
Pertur escribió:No se yo que decir sobre eso,los Soviéticos tras sacar el Hind y unas cuántas variantes artilladas del Hip,desarrollaron el Ka50/52 y el Mi28.
Pertur escribió:No se yo que decir sobre eso,los Soviéticos tras sacar el Hind y unas cuántas variantes artilladas del Hip,desarrollaron el Ka50/52 y el Mi28.
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Shomer escribió:De cualquier forma yo no estoy diciendo que aun no tengan su utilidad en ciertos escenarios, la tienen y la seguiran teniendo por muchos años mas, pero invertir en nuevos proyectos es un sinsentido.
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