- Reaction score
- 22,846
- Points
- 1,360
So should we be buying more Chinooks then? Is the present 14 enough?
No. (More Chinooks)
Yes (14 is enough, since the Cormorant is being upgraded…although the Hook would have made a great SAR platform, but yellow does yellow, so upgraded 149 it will be)
The biggest factor is, as @dapaterson notes, the personnel factor.
There is enough infrastructure to let a 450 Det operate out west as required. People are what’s needed, and 1 Wing is no exception. Work the newer capabilities (fast long range UH and UAS) rather than lopsiding to a CH over-bias.