Transport Aircraft

Heavy Lift my eye. More shoddy journalism. A cursory google would have caught this description at the top of the model page on the Airbus website.

Or any part of an airfield "the runway".

In the early 90s a fishing boat sank outside Howth harbour one night drowning , i think 2 fishermen. For whatever reason, no night qualified pilots or similar, nothing could be sent from baldonnel. Instead a Wessex had to come from RAF Valley . It turned out afterwards, that when the RAF were ordering their last batch of Sea King HAR 3s in the late 80s we were invited to tack on a small order, say 3/4 aircraft . as usual, we didnt bother. Why would we , defense procurement in this country is a complete joke

Having no helicopters would be a better situation than a fleet of NH90s.

According to the article they're actually buying another Nh 90 nfh , as well as getting rid of their troop transport variants

Think they announced that at the time, given the demand for slots on the production line we would have had to pay another nation to “jump the queue” otherwise.

From the times article. The successful bidder will have to provide use of the jets at four day’s notice.

What happens if our leaders have an emergency meeting in EU HQ and the contractor says we will be with you in 3 days As per the tender

They would travel commercial scheduled, or use an Air Corps aircraft.

The whole point of this contract, again if you read it, is supplementary.

Besides, while this contract is asking for 3 days notice, many of these VIP and Government charters will, as part of their business model, offer 24 Hours.

Thats not the way it works. Larger assets have to fit in with the strategic plan for what will become the Air Force.

As of now, we have no pilots and crew to train on a 390, no tasks for them to undertake and nowhere to hangar it. Other than that, fine idea!

Besides which, I don't believe that any European air forces should be buying Brazilian aircraft ahead of European or allied offerings. Irrespective of Lula da Silva's return to power, it seems that Brazil is determined to progress a deeper than economic relationship with it's BRICS associates, Russia, China, India and South Africa, all of whom have ignored, tolerated or even facilitated Russia's own invasion of Ukraine.

We simply should not be paying them for anything.

It can only be that, or someone repossessing the helicopters we fell behind on HP payments for.

😂😂

And she even has it pinned and tried defending it…

If the air corps got 2 extra 295s plus the one on order which would allow us to join one of the european transport partnerships, What way does that work would air corps crew get trained on the likes of A400s or is it a case if a country needs certain size of aircraft what ever partner has the size will supply crew and aircraft?

Some of Martins comments:

Whats he on about there? But in reality how much “exploring” does it take? These aren’t new programs or anything, the information should be easily accessible, and frankly should have been looked at at least since Kabul.