"The readiness of helicopters is dangerously low": the Bundeswehr has found a replacement for the Tiger strike machines

The German Ministry of Defense is considering the possibility of decommissioning the fleet of Tiger combat helicopters and replacing them with Airbus H145M modified for anti-tank missions.

The Business Insider edition was able to access internal documents of the military department. They state that "the combat readiness of helicopters is at a dangerously low level." Of the 51 machines, only a small part is in working condition. The Tiger fleet is expected to start shrinking from 2027. In this regard, the Bundeswehr in the face of the H145M found a replacement for these percussion machines.

It is reported that the German Ministry of Defense has studied several options for restoring the anti-tank capabilities of its combat helicopters. At the same time, the ideas of purchasing American Apache machines and participating in the Tiger Mk III program (a major modernization planned to be carried out in Spain and France) were rejected. As indicated, both options were excluded because they required a lot of money and time.

As a result, a choice was made in favor of acquiring 82 H145M from Airbus Helicopters for 3,05 billion euros and equipping 24 of them with Stinger air-to-air missiles and ATGMs, which will eliminate the operation of the Tiger. However, a number of Bundeswehr sources were skeptical about the H145M's ability to adequately replace the Tiger.

Although the H145M, which is a military version of the civilian H145, can perform various types of combat missions, it was not designed for high-intensity combat scenarios, unlike vehicles such as Tiger, Apache, Mi-28, Ka-52 or AH-1 , and does not have the necessary survivability, reliability and crew protection capabilities

- indicated in the publication.

As noted in Business Insider, the Bundeswehr sees the planned acquisition as "a purely political decision that ignores operational needs."

Comments

[Filibuster]

The United States is actively awakening the Teutonic spirit - they alone cannot cope with Russia and China at the same time.
And then Germany will throw off the American bridle.
A little more - a year or two, and over the whole of Europe it will thunder again:
"Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles, uber alles in der Welt!"

[Sulla__Glorious]

A little more - a year or two, and over the whole of Europe it will thunder again:
"Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles, uber alles in der Welt!"

The Germans - and did not stop singing their current anthem!

[Filibuster]

Only from 1951 to 1991, while the Western Group of Forces stood on the Elbe, did the West Germans sing the third verse about unity, law and freedom.
And now more often they remember the first verse about the fact that Germany is above all.

[Artillerieunteroffizier]

Don't worry, here in Germany nobody sings "Deutschland uber alles", nobody dares to do it, because you will be arrested for it. It is forbidden to sing like that. On top of that, 70 percent of Westerners are stupid enough to think that Zelenskiy is defending “Western values.”

[Filibuster]

If the United States decides to revive Nazism in Germany, the obedient Bundestag will lift all restrictions.

[Man from afar]

"The United States is actively awakening the Teutonic spirit.
And then Germany will throw off the American bridle."
Lol, they do not wake up the German "spirit", but train a female German Shepherd so that it does not crap on the floor and barks only at Russians, and not at Anglo-Saxon owners.

[Filibuster]

Since 1930, American and British bankers and politicians have also been actively training Hitler and the NSDAP in the direction of Drang nach Osten, but on May 10, 1940, something went wrong ...

[volodimer]

America, like the elderly Larry Flynt, was once strong and powerful, created the Playboy empire, ruined a bunch of girls ... But he has grown decrepit, now his rabbits are not averse to hugging other machos. Of course, he promises them money and for this case he raised guards. But that’s not the problem, because he didn’t allow the guards to look at the rabbit girls. These are his girls. And the guards have lost all their masculinity, the only thing they can do is that each with a bow in quiet. Naturally, these girls do not listen, the old man at least scares someone else, whom he bribes / buys, but they are drawn to real men, even if they don’t promise trousers, they have balls for that.

[Aken]

We need to quickly curtail aid to the Outskirts, and when they are forgiven, buy Mi-28s.

[dmi.pris1]

In general, who should forgive them? We?? Didn't they go through the forest?

[Aken]

Why break ties forever? Repent, make amends, restore flows, and forgive. Why not?

[tralflot1832]

The Tiger helicopter is a failed project of France and Germany, just over 200 vehicles were produced.

Real helicopters with high combat performance can only be built by Russia, the USA and China.

[Filibuster]

No need to rush things. During the Second World War, German engineers and designers with the Me-262 and V-2 proved that they could be ahead of the United States and Russia.

[AVA77]

Well, yes, the Germans proved it. Some of the engineers were taken to the USSR and some to the USA. Like ebony.

[Aken]

Since then a lot has changed. Schools are gone. They tried with the same Tiger, but failed.

[Filibuster]

Talent just like that at Oktoberfest will not work on drink.
Germany has retained many high-tech competencies.

[blackGRAIL]

And there are just no complaints about German engineers and designers. We are talking about the total unwillingness of the German government to bear military expenses for the purchase of new and maintenance of existing equipment. The same Frenchmen have no problems with the Tiger.

[Zaurbek]

It would be interesting to look at the work of the Tigers and Apaches in a conflict similar to NWO

[volodimer]

modified for anti-tank missions.

At the same time, the ideas of purchasing American Apache machines and participating in the Tiger Mk III program (a major modernization planned to be carried out in Spain and France) were rejected. As indicated, both options were excluded because they required a lot of money and time.

Apache seems to have been created as an anti-tank helicopter to stop the avalanches of Soviet tanks rushing to the English Channel.
If, as even on VO, some wrote that we lost all new tanks in \ na404 and therefore we are introducing the T-62, and soon the T-54 \ 55 ... Then what for they have an anti-tank helicopter, and moreover, urgently ?? ?

[Filibuster]

Some hat throwers have gathered - minus the truth about the revival of Nazism in Germany and throughout Europe.
Look, no matter how soon you all have to wash yourself with tears of blood, as in 1941!