German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition

Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by bolololo1 on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:39AM (#15932513)

Why don't they pick H225M Caracal?

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by dgregd on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:21PM (#15934742)

This scrap is not flying. French army has them and 75% of them are broken. They don't repair them because of high maintenance costs.

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by bolololo1 on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:55AM (#15951582)

So looks like a good choice that Polish government cancelled the deal to buy them

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by DoveBrown on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:07AM (#15932743)

As far as I can tell Eurocopter don't have a heavy lift helicopter. Does anyone know of any development program they were running to make one?

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by ju-st on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:50AM (#15932598)

H225M MTOW: 11t

CH-53K MTOW: 38t

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by ethagknight on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:02AM (#15932701)

The CH-53 is a massive helicopter. CH-53K has 2x the rotor area as the H225M, and its over 50% taller, longer.

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by microcolonel on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:41PM (#15934415)

    H225M: (Empty Weight - MTOW) ≅  5650kg
    CH-47: (Empty Weight - MTOW) ≅ 11500kg
    CH-53: (Empty Weight - MTOW) ≅ 23300kg

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by lstodd on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:32PM (#15935351)

Mi-26: (MTOW - Empty Weight) ≅ 27800kg

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