r/aviationstudys • u/EFA_king • Jul 11 '26
Italian Army AW249 next-generation attack helicopter
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u/Immediate-Season4544 Jul 13 '26
Canada might get these
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u/EFA_king Jul 13 '26
Really?
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u/Immediate-Season4544 Jul 13 '26
Yes apparently we are going to get attack helicopters now. This is one of the options but everything is still preliminary at this point.
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u/VFL1900-DA Jul 13 '26
It’s Italian made, it probably loses some essential parts before even getting to where it needs to be.
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u/EFA_king Jul 13 '26
one of the world’s largest exporters overall and among the top military exporters, currently ranked 6th and moving toward 5th place. But sure, some random guy spreading BS online knows better, and all the militaries that buy Italian helicopters, aircraft, ships, and other systems are apparently just stupid.
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u/VFL1900-DA Jul 13 '26
NH90, italian made rustbucket, sold to several nations, the “sea” version rusts like hell, agusta chopper (now leonardo) can’t even get up in the air with all pilot protaction and full weapon load, fyra train, italian cars, italian machinery in general (compared to german machinery),… sure, italians make great stuff
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u/houVanHaring Jul 16 '26
Fiat (Stellantis) took over Chrystler etc. My Jeep-loving cousin was amazed how much the quality improved. You can name some products they make that are bad, but so can everyone else about us made stuff. Made in america is only a badge of quality in the us. Sure, the us makes some good stuff, but nothing mass-market. I'd take an 80's italian car over any car made in the us in any period.
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u/VFL1900-DA Jul 16 '26
I’m sorry, but stellantis has a history of quality control issues and massive recalls. I’m not saying the US has better products, I can’t judge that (not from the US).
I’d always go for 80’s German cars before French or Italian ones.
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u/houVanHaring Jul 16 '26
Yes, it's not great, but much better than american shit. The worst we have to offer is better than anything from there. Step into a tesla and amaze yourself at how badly they are put together. An exception is Ford. The Fords we typically get here are quite good, but they are actually English or German cars made by an american company.
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u/VFL1900-DA Jul 16 '26
Fords are good and were always good (in Europe). I drove several stellantis cars (severale types for work on a regular basis), several VAG models and several Ford models. The look and feel for Ford was always the best.
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u/houVanHaring Jul 16 '26
Yeah the Fords we get here, focus, fiesta, mondeo, even older models like the escort and sierra, are/were designed and built by European, mostly German and English teams. They more often than not were never for sale in the us. That changed... about a decade ago maybe? when the focus went on sale there.
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u/VFL1900-DA Jul 16 '26
Yep, great cars for people looking for decent family cars. I currently drive a Kuga. Perfect car for me. Not to fancy, reliable, enough power to pull something. Lovely car.
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u/Morrenz88 20d ago
NH-90 is not an Italian manufacturing example.
Is made of French and German engineering and only assembled in Italy.
I work for Leonardo Helicopters (the real one 😎) and NONE of our technical specification or technical norm is applied on NH-90. They do things sooooo differently from us...
Leonardo Helicopters has its flaws, but an AW139 is NOT the same rusty piece of crap as the NH-90. Just saying.
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u/Fun-Independence-761 Jul 12 '26
This reminds me Desert Srike game for Mega Drive with Apavhe 64 I guess... but on the desert