English dude.
Meant to respond to this, but I’m curious to see which flaws you see with NH-90 just from looking at it, it does have flaws definitely.
Yes and you’re comparing it with primarily a Naval helicopter. The NH-90 is actually built for maritime operations.
I would agree the Blackhawk platform is more rugged, NH-90 has significantly better carry capacity for both soldiers, Medevac and a slightly higher underslung capability as its more of a Tactical Transport Helicopter than a Battlefield Utility Helicopter
Unleash the Swordfish, they’ve got hunting to do
(Can we also get the Swordfish MkII return on sale for a brief window with this update or soon?)
As I said
looks > real life performance
The position of the door gunners getting in the way of soliders trying to get out from there. There is a ramp too, but it means only being able to get out one way instead of 2 for quicker movement. If there is also a ramp gunner then they cannot leave through the ramp since they’d be running in front of a machine gun.
Even if the NH-90 is originally built for naval operations it’s still used by many armies in its different variants. If a transport is needed, a CH-53K would outperform it in every way (not to mention, CH-53 is best looking transport helicopter)
It doesn’t even look better
It looks miles better than the gremlin looking UH-60
Squint and it’s the same thing
projecting much?
When will the pre-order start for the German F18 Pack?
Don’t know what I’m projecting I’m stating my opinion
First one looks clean. Idk what to say about the second
Eh, the gear pontoons look like caravans and the Turbines look like they forgot them at first and just slapped them on, IMO the best looking transport heli is a toss up between the Twin Huey, Lynx, or AW101
Eh, IMO the naval lynx’s look better than the Wildcat, I can’t get over the flat windscreen lmao
It looks like a truck lol
Yeah I can see those flaws, but again different utilities. Blackhawk is definitely the better battlefield utility helicopter, but NH-90 is a better maritime helicopter (when it works, which it doesn’t), so I’d buy Blackhawk variant, but ideally Merlin or Wildcat.
But i’d dispute some of your points, for example as you mentioned NH-90 has the rear-ramp, soldiers disembark at the rear and sides, Blackhawk also has a door gunner even more in the way. As you said more ways to disembark, in which case NH-90 has 3. They don’t have to mount the ramp gun and unlike Blackhawk variants, they have the option. They also have window mounted guns as an option, rather than door guns, which leaves the entire door free again, Blackhawk doesn’t have this option.
I thought we were comparing it to S-70 platforms. You can’t do everything on one helicopter. On a strictly naval basis the NH-90 has a huge leg up as it is equipped with floatation gear, there is not S-70 platform with this. SH-60B got them, and then promptly had them removed as they didn’t work, and got in the way of personnel exiting. The UK’s own trials with floatation gear found that adding it to a helicopter improved survivability of crew by more than 100%, and increased rescue requirements from 13 minutes to more than 2.5 hours.
CH-53K also doesn’t fit on anything smaller than an aircraft carrier. Again they’re different specifications you’re now talking about. A CH-53K also has no ASW capabilities at all. Heavy lift =/= utility/transport.
Anyway, Merlin is the best naval helicopter imo, though its a different class to S-70.
Wildcat does compare well with MH-60 though
I just love the weapon layout on the Wildcat, not being a boring square but with 2 on top and 3 on the bottom
They stealthified it, and then stuck on a bunch of stuff and that kinda ruined it.
can we get a petition going for naval research to be increased ?
takes decades to grind and its only gonna get worse
They don’t really get in the way like the NH90 ones
Yeah the missile pods look cool