ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Professor John Blaxland has raised concerns for the missing Taipan military helicopter saying there have been “problems since the get go”.
“It does seem to be a bit of a problem child – this has been a platform that’s generated enormous downtime for maintenance,” he told Sky News Australia.
“It’s been generating huge cost blowouts for keeping it serviceable.”
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Why pray about this when it was God’s plan? Everything according to God’s plan, no?
RIP Airmen…
This is what you get when you let politicians and bureaucrats choose our equipment by kickbacks and not what we need
The problem with a military that is built using inflated, profitable business plans instead of equipment designed for strategic & tactical necessity. The sales pitch before functionality.
And we all know who the muppet was who signed off on buying these birds despite nobody wanting them.
Should have bought Apaches and uodated Blackhawks from the start
Politicians (wef puppets) chasing net zero but have war games with tanks, jets, boats etc polluting the environment
The Taipan has been plagued with problems. The entire fleet was grounded in 2019 due to tail rotor problems.
I knew this would be the outcome. I mean going out to help quickly is important because you never know maybe someone survived but I seen aircraft hit water less than 50 meters above it and the impact is enough to completely crush the entire craft, and essentially it implodes on all the occupants. No need to explain what it looks like during a clean up. You are basically just using a hose to wash away what is left of a human.
THANKYOU, MIMNISTER FOR DISARMAMENT.
Immature technology once again bites us in the derriere? VS. ??? 🤔
A most frightening thing that probably is our dreadful ordeal is that Joe stole national state secrets which he peddled around the world as the big guy using his son Hunter as international business executive for regular English teachers and consultants weren't ever generously remunerated many millions of dollars by the China CCP and it's associated fascist corporations. Who and what has the code of all tech hardware whose software operating system is The Art of War? As the old fire dragon rises out of a century of great humiliation of previous era failed communist cultural revolution, the new empire isn't our friend despite it producing us most every sort of science fiction miracle and curse. About 3 weeks ago when our worst president in history went to India to sit Modi a few minutes blurted out, 'I stole national state secrets which I sold around the world,' just like how he said, 'when I was 30, she was 12.' The odd thing is most people ignore all this noise leaving socially isolated individuals watching this most dreadful big secret in plain sight reveal plan as day like how a horrible movie plays. We can't get away from the sick over priced deadly fake butter popcorn and soda even though most of us won't go to a theater again.
One thing he said needs to be addressed. The nh90 can be flown soon, if a waiver is granted. The other thing with the Blackhawk is it is seen in the USA as a phasing our equipment. Meaning that the USA is getting rid of it. The nh90 as a bought of the shelf piece of equipment would have been better. Yes the Blackhawk is better and we should have gotten them even though they are phasing them out , the same thing happens with every piece of equipment the defence force buys. We try to make that equipment a do everything thing, not what it was it designed for. For example, the tiger helicopter. It had 2 major variants when we purchased it and instead of staying with one we tried to put them together into one and added more, thus making it a master of nothing and a liability. The same with the taipan. We bought it, modified it to what we think we needed, this changes the initial design and function this making it useless and dangerous. It happens with every equipment then defence buys. They don’t ask the actual operators and people who train them on what equipment or platform to buys instead they buy it, change it dramatically and use it differently than it was designed for which makes it dangerous to operate by the operators and changes its capabilities dramatically.
I feel for the families, and hope they are ok, but it’s a culture of not listening and buying what they want in the defence procurement group. They don’t care what the users want or need and don’t really care what happens to them: if they did they would ask us.
And this so called making us use the same equipment allied countries use is good, but, our country and our defence force doctrine requires different equipment to that of our allies. Take the m1. I was a bring into use operator, then a operator to a instructor. One thing we asked for was a vehicle that required less maintenance , reliable, used less fuel, and easy to operate and had a good use in our terrain. The m1 initially did not and in some cases still falls far short. This is obvious because when we had them in service we had to change our doctrine completely. Yes we had to adapt to changing battlespace but we excelled in what we did. So much so our older leopard were callable of being operated to outperform the m1 on occasions. No we have had to change to the USA doctrine more and more:
Everything was fine until Australia started aggressively following USA’s upper thigh hole. Now we are losing soldiers in war games with the US. Our trade with China is fractured. We had friends in the region who either are enemies now or don’t look at us the same way they used to. The French are pissed because of the terminated submarine deal just so USA can build them instead. We are spending hundreds of billions now on military not really for Australia but rather to back up USA for its world dominance. We followed USA orders to send over a billion in funding and military equipment to Ukraine. Everywhere USA is involved in the world there is instability. Australia needs its own foreign policy. Stop doing everything USA orders you to do you puppets
Why would these helcopters be any different to anything the ADF has adopted over the last 40 years…
When will the Australian government start buying update , new and reliable equipment rather than second hand US castoffs. I remember when living in England a friend of mine was an officer in the US Navy and he laughed when the Australian Navy brought a second hand US ship , which was going to be scrapped. Millions had to be spent to make it serviceable and don’t get me stated about the first generation Abrahams that performed poorly in the first Gulf War that the Saudis ended up buying another countries tank as had performed better in combat.
Guess which country bought those tanks, that nobody else wanted?
Stop showing a bad sea state , it is very calm at the scene.
Albo has blood on his hands following Biden's stupidity into War .
As of March 2023, Aviation Safety Network lists 390 total incidents involving Black Hawk helicopters (including variants). ASN data lists 970 deaths in Black Hawk helicopter crashes.