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German Army Will Up-grade Their CH 53s

Columba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 5615 posts, RR: 5
Posted (3 years 3 months 4 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 746 times:

According to the newspaper "Die Welt" the German Army will spend 690 millions Euros to up-grade their aging fleet of CH 53 transport helicopters in order to keep them flying for another 20-25 years.
The acquisition of a new helicopter is not planned.
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/03/984217.html

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon

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PADSpot From Germany, joined Jan 2005, 1673 posts, RR: 7
Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 719 times:

The article does not provide much information. This one is better ...
http://soldat-und-technik.de/03-06/heer.pdf

Sorry guys, only in German Sad

Cheers,
Jan

RC135U From United States, joined May 2005, 293 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 months 4 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 638 times:

I take it that they weren't interested in the new-build CH-53K.

PADSpot From Germany, joined Jan 2005, 1673 posts, RR: 7
Reply 3, posted (3 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 604 times:

Quoting RC135U (Reply 2):
I take it that they weren't interested in the new-build CH-53K.

They never really were. They are interested in a new large transport helicopter after 2020. Modernizing the remaining 80 CH-53s is far cheaper (700 mil €) than buying new ones (at least 5 bil €). Time will show whether Europeans and Americans couple together to built a common new one or if Eurocopter and Sikorsky can gather enough customers to development their own concepts ... There will be a bunch of Stallions and Chinooks on their way out at that time ...