Report: Canada pauses Black Hawk helicopter purchase amid U.S. trade tensions
3 days ago by supersquirrel to c/canadapolitics
During and immediately following CANSEC 2026 in late May, Airbus demonstrated the ability of the H145M and H175M for all three phases on nTACS, including for the special operations forces. Leonardo, too, would likely propose one or both of its AW249 and AW149 platforms if an open competition were held.
During a recent media briefing in France, Airbus Helicopters said its H175M could be manufactured in Canada if it was selected for nTACS.
“We think we have the perfect products to [replace the Griffon], and we have the capacity in Airbus — and with the supply chain, the aerospace capability in Canada — to do major developments in Canada,” Matthieu Louvot, president and CEO of Airbus Helicopters, told journalists.
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The US and SpaceX have curtailed Ukraine's war effort by limiting range of drones allowed by Starlink terminals. What's the point of buying US equipment if it isn't reliable?
sigh No
I mean sure don't buy the Black Hawk fuck the US but you are terribly, catastrophically wrong in your assumptions/predictions.
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These are support weapons
You clearly do not have even a rudimentary concept of Combined Arms, everything works in a system of support, there is no Trump card and if you think drones are it and you are actually confident and unyielding about it you are a dangerous idiot.
Also helicopters have been and are being used as we speak for counter drone uses. See the UH-1Y and AH-1Z guarding NATO bases in Europe against drones, see the incredibly diverse use of the AH-64E in counter drone operations all over the world.
This is what is so exhausting about talking about war, you fools who think you understand something that makes all of warfare up until this point obsolete will not shut up and it isn't like any of us want you to have to experience it for yourself so you will finally shut up... war is awful full stop.... so what are we to do but keep patiently explaining how terribly and dangerously wrong you are?
Participating in these false narratives leads to real policy choices that will get real people killed needlessly because the entire approach to thinking about the problem came from someone who projected the fact that they have a hammer onto a situation that really didn't have many nails.
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This is what is so exhausting about talking about war, you fools who think you understand something that makes all of warfare up until this point obsolete will not shut up and it isn't like any of us want you to have to experience it for yourself so you will finally shut up
Participating in these false narratives leads to real policy choices that will get real people killed
Than maybe you shouldn't be posting this stuff /s
I don't think a bunch of lemmings speculating one way or another is gonna move the needle on this particular matter. Clearly the military industrial complex isn't listening or else our tax dollars wouldn't be funding israel turning palestinian kids into skeletons.
I can kinda get behind this. Drones don't completely invalidate tanks and helis, but they do diminish their former importance. Tanks as mobile artillery, are better served in most cases by actual mobile artillery. Helicopters serving as launch vehicles for drones and cruise missiles are better served in most cases by land or jet based deployment vehicles, or even larger drone motherships. You and your detractors both have a point that is perhaps overstated, but not wrong.
Maybe a better way to approach it is in the current trench/drone warfare meta, would we independently arrive at an attack/support helicopter as a solution in that environment? I have no horse in this race either way, but i've been a part of waaaaay too many dumb comittees and engineering meetings where people are arguing over trivial things based on bad design requirements because the goals changed, and nobody checked if the requirements should too...
Loved that movie as a kid.
If we're going to be doing military Keynesianism, we better fund our industry's development.
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