BFP Episode 4: Belgium's Future Rotorcraft
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2022
- as part of the Belgian Armed Forces its large scale modernisation plan, better know as the STAR-plan (aka Horizon 2030 or Strategic Vision), the entire Belgian Air Force its fleet is to be re-equiped with new and modernized aircraft between now and 2030.
In this video, we will take a look at the future of the BAF's rotary wing fleet, i will do a video on the fixed wing plans at a later date.
an overview of the STAR-plan can be viewed here (Dutch): dedonder.belgium.be/sites/def...
to sum up what i will be reviewing in this video:
-NH90-TTH early retirement plans
-NH90-NFH upgrade plans
-SAR-H: new SAR helicopter plans
-LUH: new light utility helicopter to replace the A109BAi and NH90-TTH.
-HTH: Heavy Transport Helicopters, a new capability to be introduced by 2030
press footage used and provided by Airbus, Leonardo, Boeing, Belgian Defence and own footage - Авто та транспорт
Great prospects for the Belgian air force! As here, in the Netherlands, the armed forces have been severly affected by budget cuts, so its great to see the Belgian Air Force spreading its wings again. Much love for you all, regardless of tongue.
Pure joy! Beautiful format, style, editing, voice-over, and super high-quality content. Seems to me that your channel is very underrated, judging by subscriber number. Wishing you the success you deserve!
Arguably the most logical option would be to just buy a decent number of H-145Ms, and a modest number of larger H-225Ms if necessary, potentially contracted out. The H-145M is big enough for most basic roles, but can also do special forces support and other missions. A single type fleet would be far more easily supported too. The idea of buying a small fleet of Chinooks is, frankly, nuts. Belgium simply doesn’t need them, and they’d just become hangar queens, before being sold off. Better to stick to what you can genuinely afford to keep. If you really wanted Chinooks, much better to contract it out to a joint squadron with Germany/Nederland/UK.
great video, great channel! maybe do one day a video of the history of belgian F16 and Mirage demo pilots?
Loving your content and knowledgement. Gongrats.
Great video !
It was sad to see the demise of Belgium
Military from its 80s heyday
Helicopters as a combat vehicle
Are dead ducks in combat
As proven in the Ukraine conflict.
Great video 👍
I hope to see a re-introduction of around 8 medium helicopters.
Blackhawk’s would be perfect, very versatile, cost and maintenance effective and high availability and capacity. Even the Taliban can keep them in the air.
Or if they choose for Caracal instead of NH90 they probably wouldn’t be replacing them by now.
nothing about drones? Also i need a channel like this for the navy and land component do you know any? regarding future plans?
i will feature a segment on the future drones in one of the next video's.
Good work on this video! So sad they dont have a plan for a AH
In the previously drawn strategic vision in 2016, there were plans for attack helicopters, such as the AH-64E, but were removed after protest from the green parties (fucking treehuggers).
@@BelgiumsFlyingPast maybe now we can bring this plan back
@@BelgiumsFlyingPast Sad that our government bought the Agusta A109 and nh 90
@@Rafa-mp6xe yes they should buy the CH-47 Chinook or the superb ch-53k ;-)
@@gijsbert.de.slagmulder the CH-53 is very expensive, that means less helicopters and and almost no operational helicopters. While the Chinook is cost-effective, becuase we can do the maintenance together with the Dutch and Germans
Interesting content.
Maybe you should not activate the voice activation on your mic, it makes the sound choppy and not very nice to hear.
hi do you know that the fairey helicopters were made by a belgian ingeneer called ernest oscar tips i wish they take the fairey notar as combat helicopter
We can't even afford to keep the NH90 TTH in the air, and yet they want to buy even more expensive heavy lift helicopters 🤣
If they're not careful, we may end up having to buy Leonardo 's again !
Not really sure why we should invest in chinooks at this point.. 😂😂
The amount of belgian special forces/commando troops are way to low imo..
𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘮 😘
TCO and operational efficiency were predictable. Politics and military command preferences overruled common sense. Their F35 will be an even bigger financial hangover. Belgium is a city state And a modern military force on the 3 major components is unaffordable. A civil and drone army is the only potential to discourage potential adversaries. .
Belgium..😲😂😂😂..was ist das eine playmobil armee !
in the first was the Belgain army kick you in the ass fucking german
Maybe so but we didn't lose twice
Yeah Poor Germany, that why German Submarines are sinking because they can t pay there maintenance😂😂😂😂