Helicopters arrive at Charters Towers for Exercise Vigilant Scimitar
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2022
- Australian Army aviators from 16th Aviation Brigade are using Exercise Vigilant Scimitar in northern Queensland to practice and perfect their warfighting skills throughout May 2022.
Exercise Vigilant Scimitar practices flying operations using Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters, CH-47F Chinook and MRH-90 Taipan helicopters in collective warfighting scenarios coordinated by elements of Army’s 1st Division.
Other Army elements of 3rd Brigade, 7th Brigade and 17th Sustainment Brigade as well as Royal Australian Air Force and other contributing force elements will be supporting the activities.
16th Aviation Brigade is part of Army Aviation Command and includes Army’s three flying units: 1st Aviation Regiment in Darwin, 5th Aviation Regiment in Townsville and 6th Aviation Regiment in Sydney.
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Great to see our entire rotary wing Airforce in the one place at the one time.
Considering that all these Helicopters except the Chinook are about to be scrapped. 👍
Considering that all these helicopters including the Chinook seem to work with other militaries, says more about the user than the helicopter...
@@regregan6852 NZ has also experienced reliability issues with their MRH90 Helos
@@MMG008 all new build helicopters do, in fact most equipment in general has teething issues in the beginning, difference being NZ has theirs sorted now and are actually quite happy with them.
Germany also panned the 90’s and Tiger for poor operational availability. It would seem it’s not just an Aussie issue.
@@MMG008 Because NZ bought the same Frankenstein version of the NH90 as Australia. The Australians have a habit of forcing manufactures to create frankenstein version of EU, US and australian systems which always ends up badly and then the australians complain that their weird frankenstein versions are weird. You couldn't make it up.
The one dude waving 👋 to the helicopters was cute.
What an “if only” if only the tipans and tigers delivered what they promised on paper. That would have been something.
Well when the Taipans work they work as intended.
Belgium is phasing out most of its Taipans, and they have been running them hard, so they know.
Do you have any info the the Ozzy track record on the NH90 ? I am German and would like to know how much the NH90 is a EU pet project to keep the illusion of EU industrial cooperation alive ? the Airbus 380 was a multi billion Euro dud. The Tiger is a dud. The German defense industry is a shambles, we cannot even built a war ship on time and have it work. It is terrible up here.
@@dirkbogarde7796 y’all make some pretty awesome guns though, so you got that going for y’all.
@@raiderknight8194 H&K nearly went into receivership recently. But I guess they were saved by some large deal.
@@dirkbogarde7796 oh thank god.
Godspeed
The Tigers are only let down by the lack of spare parts from manufactured or no longer being manufactured in the EU. Australia's flight hours for Tiger is a lot higher than the other users and that's with a lot less aircraft. The Tiger is a great platform and once the initial issues were sorted out over 5 years ago it has been awesome. I've worked with the marines over in the US and serviceability issues with their Cobras and Hueys are the same, if not worse than Tiger. We've brought a less mature platform and made it work to a comparable standard with other western countries. If we had bought a more mature platform in the first place it would have had its own issues.
Rotary aircraft are not trucks or tanks, they're complex bits of machinery. Any 'small' issue may ground it as it's a lot easy to roll to a stop in a vehicle than a helicopter if there is a catastrophic failure.
The US is pressuring us to buy all US equipment, just money laundering. Tigers and Taipans were good.
What a sick name for an Exercise.
Fully of partially sick ?
@@davidnobular9220 Sick as m8
If I have one true regret in life it's not having the maturity and drive to serve with the ADF when I was young and fit. Tried joining the reserves a few years ago but blew out a knee and my achilles tendon training for it.
Back in the middle of 2020 I visited my Aunty and Uncle, my uncle took my pop and I too the base my uncle works at to show us around talk about what he does there, he was flying in blackhawks but there were MRH-90’s there but they were still sorting out issues, but my uncle had said that they were getting close to them being fully operational and that once they were ready they would replace the blackhawks, I don’t know if they’re using the MRH-90’s now because I haven’t been back since due to distance, but you’d hope they are because if not it was a waste of money and time buying them
Edit: Just looked into it and they’re getting scrapped, honestly not all that surprised though
It's not unusual for the ADF to waste money.... coughF-35coughcough
8th Flight Charters Towers, Air Cadets. I recognise the air field.
I’m gonna miss those Taipans and Tigers when the army gets rid of them 🙁
Stay Tuned
So 161 finally got some attack helicopters bit better than the Vietnam era bell get rangers I worked on
What has happened to the blackhawks from 5 th aviation my last posting 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
The Tigers look awesome but can't wait till we dump those unreliable Taipan moneypits and get our Blackhawks. It's now or it's too late.
You realise they were purchased so as not to offend the Chinese and Indonesians.
@@Aaronsmith-cu8ii wouldn't surprise me.
Sikorsky would happily sell you guys Blackhawks
Need Apaches. Proven by the US and British in a working theatre.
ROFL, you’re happy with the Tigers but the MRH90’s are money pits - in the words of Shoresy, give your ball a tug!
Don't start a bushfire again
Lots of training going on up north…. Our boys getting ready or what?
You should have kept the Tigers and Taipans. The reasons for ditching them makes our engineers seem very incompetent. You to start being the Australian defence force, not the US defence force.
Funny they are using the NH90s and the Tigers which are going to be scrapped.
Donate them to NZ
Sad to see that most of these birds will be scrap metal soon
No, sold
@@joeyphaahla to whom ?
@@dirkbogarde7796 NZ and a few others
We need a better military more stuff more training more everything
No, we just need good leadership in Canberra that trust our guys on the ground to make the right decisions.
@@Aaronsmith-cu8ii I mean Australia needs to be able to bring the fight to anyone with or without our Allies at as of current that is not the case lots needs to be done
@@exilty-1851 No, we don't. Mate, clearly you haven't served at all. We're the Australian *DEFENCE* Force. Not the Australian Offence Force. You're talking like a yank mate. Grow up. Not everything is solved with violence.
"A good soldier is ready for war but prays and fights for peace." I learned that during Selection in 1997. But I didn't understand it until Iraq in 2005.
Get your head screwed on straight.
@@mitchell1091 Australian defence force is a joke a decent size budget but it gets us nothing you should know very well yes not everything is over violence but having the muscle to back up a statement is important and unfortunately that is something Australia does not have no deterrent at all besides being allies with America
@@exilty-1851 Countries don't fight on their own anymore, even super powers like the UK, France or even the US. its all combined ops now, Cost Saving/Cutting measures. Australia especially will not be fighting alone as our mil is very small to make any tactical difference
The Tigers are good dump the rest
Tigers are sh*t
Chinooks are absolute work horses mate. We recently upgraded the model of ours too
The Tigers are not even combat proven yet.
French have deployed them to Mali and have Beeb proven well enough, now if the army had actually stopped bitching and got stuck into both airframes they wouldn't be on the chopping block. But the government wants to do everything on the cheap and this is the result, good equipment badly handled.
@@TH-vl8dw Tigers are a hunk of Junk they should have gone with the Apache like they're now doing and had saved themselves a lot of money.
Ytboys
We need a world with no military
And what, fight wars with civilians, yeah real smart, you think that no military means no wars but that would never happen wars would still happen
If you choose to have no military. You've chosen to have war.
@Jimmeh 506 you still need people to operate drones and robots, and ai isn’t quite advanced enough yet
Moralising and provincial is your post.
Possibly the dumbest comment I've seen on CZcams