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Nice
But please show F-15EX next
Fun Fact there is a picture of the Aw 159 next a rack of 4 Zt6 Makopa
Or is the Super lynx Mk68, Operated by South African navy later planned to be added in future?
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Oh my. As a certified Heli addict, I’d love to fly this beauty!
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taken from surrogate mother US AH-64A
I’m sorry, but augustawestland was completely bought by Finmeccanica ( now Leonardo ) in 2004, the contract for the program was given to the company by the UK mod in 2006 and the first flight of the aw159 was in 2009. So the contract for the development and a the helicopter first flight all append under an italian company and yes, it is build in the uk, in a factory owned by an italian company. Not to mention that the aircraft is advertised on the official Leonardo site as a original design. How is it possibile that italy has no connection to the helicopter
So far there isn’t any evidence its been integrated or tested yet to Wildcat.
It has no connection to the armed helicopter.
You can have an unarmed one if you wish so🤗
Are you guys going to add DIRCM to the wildcat helicopter?
Ah yes, because the weapons are integrated by the british army and navy directly, surley Leonardo isn’t involved
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Mokopa is actually for Algeria’s Lynx Mk.140 rather than South Africa’s Lynxes
They use the same Wescam EOTS as Wildcat to guide the missiles, so technically compatible with Wildcat if Gaijin choose to act on Mokopa being displayed as a potential armament for Wildcat. However Algeria also requested the purchase of 3x AW159s last year, so we may see it flying with Mokopa as well before long
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Work on the vehicle and program (originally Future Lynx) began well before the company’s aquisition by Leonardo.
Leonardo itslef is a private company. We dont base the implementation of vehicles on wherever a company’s headquarters or place of origin is.
Design, development, testing and production of the Wildcat was all UK based.
Leonardo being the eventual parent company isn’t relevant.
A private company marketing the helicopter sadly doesn’t suddenly make it Italian. The Italian armed forces have thus far shown no intrest in the Wildcat. All of the export models to other nations have also been produced in the UK.
So as of right now, we have no plans to add an AW 159 to the Italian tree. As neither the Italian armed forces nor Hungary have tested or adopted the helicopter.
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You do know that the biggest share holder in Leonardo is the italian state with 30,2% right? So while thecnicaly is a private company, nothing happens without the approval of the state
This has nothing to do with the implementation of vehicles in the game.
All, right, than How do you explain this
Because as far as I know augustawestland was a british-italian company
SH-3H when
Wikipedia is not a reliable source
Its not even clear what you are asking me to explain about a huge Wikipedia screenshot.
Its already been explained why this vehicle is not coming to the Italain tree.
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Just as a thing, in case Gaijin still struggling to find a heli for the Swedish with regards to the MITL issues (IIRC you guys said you postponed heli MITL until more/all nations have them and there was a comment about lacking something for Sweden).
If I understood it right, doesnt the Joint UK- Norway taskforce have some kind of secondment of/deployment of British Wildcats to Norwegian navy ships? Its a bit of a stretch, but it would give at least an option to Sweden. They in effect act as part of the Norwegian Navy.
Given Sweden does have Norway military assets in its TT/is open to all Scandinavia, it at least could provide some level of support to help stop that nation falling behind on a very important asset class.
I know its very far out there as an idea, but just thought it would at least be nice for the Swede bois not to fall behind.
TBH it isnt that far out beyond the whole “was trialled for a day” trope thats already gone down for Sweden lol.
That the contract for the future Lynx was given to a british-italian company. So the helicopter is as much british as it is italian