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Poslao: 07 Dec 2024 22:29
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Slovacka dobila novu ponudu od amera
US offers Viper, Black Hawk helicopters to Slovakia in revised pitch
Citat:As Slovak officials ponder the purchase of new attack helicopters, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Robert Kaliňák has announced Bratislava has received two new offers from the United States, allowing the nation to choose between 12 AH-1Z Viper helos and 12 upgraded UH-60 Black Hawk copters.
Citat:Meanwhile, as Slovakia’s incumbent Cabinet has hesitated to buy the Viper copters, Ukrainian officials have intensified their lobbying in Washington to secure the helos for their defense against Russia.
The Slovak military currently operates a fleet of nine UH-60 Black Hawks manufactured by Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.
Kaliňák said there is a significant difference between the original $340 million Viper offer and the current price of the helicopters, which exceeds €550 million ($582 million).
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Registruj se da bi učestvovao u diskusiji. Registrovanim korisnicima se NE prikazuju reklame unutar poruka.
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Poslao: 30 Dec 2024 16:21
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Filipinci povukli iz upotrebe dva AH-1S
Citat:On 28 December 2024, the 15th Strike Wing conducted the Decommissioning Ceremony of the AH-1S Cobra
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Poslao: 14 Mar 2025 19:35
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Cesima ce kasniti isporuka doniranih 6 AH-1Z Viper i 2 UH-1Y Venom
The AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the Czech Air Force will be delayed
Citat:In the summer of 2022, the United States decided to donate 6 older AH-1Z Viper and 2 UH-1Y Venom from Marine Corps surplus to Czechia. The helicopters are to be upgraded to match the newly purchased and already delivered Vipers and Venoms of the Czech Air Force, with Czechia paying CZK 3.7 billion (~$160 million) and the US CZK 6.7 billion (~$290 million) for the upgrade.
Initially, it was expected that these upgraded helicopters would arrive in Czechia by the end of 2023, with later estimates between 2025 and 2026. However, according to Lubor Koudelka, head of the armaments section of the Ministry of Defence, delivery is now estimated for the turn of 2027 and 2028. This is a significant delay in deliveries, which is justified by the alleged overcrowding of the American defense industry with orders and, according to the head of the US Defense and Security Cooperation Agency, it is unable to expedite deliveries.
Thus, Czechia will wait longer for 8 upgraded H-1 helicopters (roughly 5.5 years) than for 12 brand new H-1s (roughly 3.5 years), which were ordered in December 2019 and the first two helicopters arrived in Czechia in July 2023.
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Poslao: 02 Maj 2025 12:41
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djox ::Ameri na gadjanju sa novim raketama
Zove se Red Wolf, modularan je i pravi ga L3Harris.
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Previously unknown munitions seen loaded on the stub wings of a U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter in a picture released earlier this year have been identified. They are members of L3Harris’ modular Red Wolf family of ‘launched effects,’ which can be configured as weapons, as well as for non-kinetic roles, including as communication relay nodes. At present, the Marines primarily see Red Wolf as a path to giving its AH-1Zs an all-new standoff strike capability against targets on land and at sea that could help ensure the relevance of the helicopters in future high-end fights.
Marine Col. Scott Shadforth named Red Wolf as the munition his service is now working under its Long Range Attack Missile (LRAM) project during a presentation at the annual Modern Day Marine exposition earlier today, at which TWZ was in attendance. Shadforth is currently head of Naval Air Systems Command’s (NAVAIR) Expeditionary and Maritime Aviation-Advanced Development Team (XMA-ADT). He also provided additional details about LRAM, which he described as a “defense innovator accelerator” effort feeding into a larger program of record called the Precision Attack Strike Missile (PASM).
In February, NAVAIR released the aforementioned image of the Red Wolf-toting AH-1Z, seen at the top of this story and below, at which time the munitions were identified only as “a new Long Range Precision Fire (LRPF) capability.” L3Harris had also quietly identified Red Wolf directly as the munition seen in the picture in a release earlier this month. A Marine AH-1Z has conducted at least one successful test launch of a Red Wolf.
“So, the current [LRAM] effort that ADT is working on right now is based on L3Harris’ Red Wolf,” Shadforth said at Modern Day Marine in direct response to a question from TWZ‘s Howard Altman. “So generally speaking, range-wise, you’re looking at low triple-digit range capacity on it and double-digit time of flight.”
Shadforth did not specify any units of measure, but the Marines have talked about a maximum range of at least 150 nautical miles (just over 170 miles or nearly 278 kilometers) for LRAM/PASM in the past. Assuming “double-digit time of flight” here is measured in minutes, this would mean Red Wolf has a subsonic cruising speed.
Other details about the Red Wolf family, and the specific version that the Marines are experimenting with now, remain limited. Red Wolf was originally developed in secret for the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), and it first emerged publicly at the U.S. Army’s Experimentation Demonstration Gateway Event in 2021 (EDGE 21). Aviation Week reported at the time that the Red Wolf demonstrated at EDGE 21 was a six-foot-long design powered by an unspecified German-made turbojet and capable of being launched by an MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone, but no pictures were released.
However, “for awareness, we have several derivatives of the baseline that have flown and provide for a variety of ranges, payloads and capabilities,” L3Harris told TWZ in Febraury when asked for more details about what was seen in the picture NAVAIR had released. “For awareness, L3Harris has developed a family of products to address long-range precision fire requirements for manned and unmanned platforms that will address a variety of customer demands.”
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