Mild improvement over the Griffon’s original AAQ-501 single-channel FLIR. Pales in comparison to the Hook’s Gen 4 15HDi with Thermal/SwIR/EO blending; only thing it didn’t get was the narrow divergence laser illuminator, but can’t get everything.
You can’t press the record button though…Mild improvement over the Griffon’s original AAQ-501 single-channel FLIR. Pales in comparison to the Hook’s Gen 4 15HDi with Thermal/SwIR/EO blending; only thing it didn’t get was the narrow divergence laser illuminator, but can’t get everything.
All I want is for you guys to have an LTD. And rockets, rockets would be nice. Oh and if we could just call you a CAS platform but that’s a private battle lol.
Hey, hey, hey…enough of that crazy STANAG3733 talk!
God dmanit. Now I have to goggle that
You clearly haven’t done enough NATO School SHAPE courses…off to Oberammergau with you!
(Pro tip: stay downtown in a Pension, vice in the NSS Caserne…and Wednesday is Hot Stone Night)
Is this even a real place??You clearly haven’t done enough NATO School SHAPE courses…off to Oberammergau with you!
They probably don't know a ton more than the average MP, to be honest. But being on the committee they are exposed to a lot more of "us stuff" than they otherwise would be
Welcome to the awesomeness of NATO European postings.
The Griffon doesn’t have a lot in common with the Super Cobra, your would need to update the Griffon fleet to the UH-1Y Venom.
I admit, I assumed (aka didn't Google anything) the 412 and UH-1Y had a lot of parts in common, with the Venom obviously being the version that actually looks like it was purpose built for military operations.
Hasn't US helicopter development post 80s been a bit messy?
Programs yes, but upgrades of inservice platforms has been excellent.
Programs for new designs were what I was thinking of.
Now, buying a healthy fleet of any or all of these would have made total sense.
Turns out when you run the military on a shoe string budget it can’t rapidly become ready. Who knew.Well it appears the Germans are in trouble too.
German army ‘too thin’ on resources to make Lithuania brigade viable, leader says
A German plan to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank by basing a brigade of soldiers in Lithuania is pushing the country’s poorly equipped army to the brink, a top general warned.www.stripes.com
They aren't on a shoestring budget. It may be 1.4% of their GDP, like us, but that still works out to US$55 billion. That gets them a force of 180,000 RegF. Of that62k are army, 27k are air force and 16k are navy. That leaves an overhead of 80,000!!!
The problem too is that there's all of Poland between Germany and Lithuania. It's a bit like Canada - you either post people there with their families or do rotations of x months. Canada is talking about rotating some 2,200 - that will be a killer. Germany is talking a full brigade. Out of their 7 uncommitted brigades that's a killer too.
