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Officials met with Cyclone rivals as Tories consider ditching chopper program


Military | 207011 hits | Oct 04 1:54 pm | Posted by: DrCaleb
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Senior National Defence and Public Works officials have met quietly behind closed doors with rival aircraft makers hoping to chart the way forward in the troubled and long-delayed replacement for the air force's Sea King helicopters. Multiple defence s

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  1. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:36 am
    For gawd sakes, approve SOMETHING! The last time that the Navy got new helicopters, Lester Pearson's government was in power!

    EH-101 ... and do a fly-by over Shawinigan when they're delivered!

  2. by housewife
    Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:41 am
    Is there a reason they can't just buy something already of the dam drawing board?!? There are lots of other militaries out there flying and they are NOT in 50 year old TXed birds.

  3. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:22 am
    Good question ...

  4. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:23 am
    Good question ...

  5. by avatar bootlegga
    Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:37 pm
    It's a travesty that these choppers are 5 years overdue and the penalty is only $88million!

    Still, this looks like a step in the right direction - let's cancel this contract and get something, anything else!

  6. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:19 pm

    let's cancel this contract and get something, anything else!



    .. off the rack, this time and upgrade / refit later.

  7. by avatar saturn_656
    Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:19 am
    I wouldn't mind the EH-101 being bought. It's what we should have had in the first place.

    The MHP will have come full circle.

  8. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:45 am
    "saturn_656" said
    I wouldn't mind the EH-101 being bought. It's what we should have had in the first place.

    The MHP will have come full circle.



    We're swallowing our own tail ... similar to the sort of thing that Svend "attack helicopter" Robinson did when he lobbied so hard to get the original contract cancelled. He swallowed something, anyway.



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