Here in the Netherlands our navy flies the NH90 very well. Only in the beginning there where quality issues..they send them back to the factory...built in Italy....but thats allready years ago.

Sounds like a commercial for the NH90.

NH90 is amazing when it can fly. It does not happen that often tho.

US is not retooling and changing its logistical/maintanance foot print to support a foriegn helo... US has over 2000 UH60s in service that fill every role and need.

We ordered 18 of them in 2001 and we still havent got our anti submarine fleet versions yet, so we are without that aspect because of it. We have the mh60M blackhawk which were ordered and all were delivered very quickly and they are like 10x cheaper to operate. Now Sweden added another order to double the blackhawks and are looking into getting a new anti sub/navy heli and it will likely be the Seahawks.

The carbon fiber is not good for a utility helicopter. Bullet holes are hard to repair.

I think I read somewhere that Australia was unhappy with its performance and maintenance.

Belgium will replace it's 4 army NH90's and it's aging augusta A109B H20's with 10 H145M's (and possibly a few heavy ones like the Chinook) Due to it's high maintance costs and low flight hours to maintanance hours. The Navy will keep it's 4 NH90's, but is looking out for another Helicopter for SAR missions (on the coast) as the NH90 is too expensive in this role. It's sad, but it's the reality...

I have never liked the NH90 for various reasons. But more importantly our SOCOMD/A special force operators did not like it either - SASR hung on to their ageing Blackhawks by the skin of their teeth - ask anyone [99%] of SOCOMD/A operators 'which' helicopter they prefer and the new Blackhawk wins every time. Without going into detail about the positives vs negatives of both platforms, Australia finally has decided on a mature, plug + play for upgrades Blackhawk. And finally selected the Apache E - several Apache E's are already delivered and are in the process of IOC. But what is as a side issue an unprecedented FUBAR even for the most incompetent and dysfunctional Dept of Defence globally - DoD's headquarters in 'Russell' - the decision by the Chief of Army to actually 'bury' what are still capable helicopters that were in their innovatory - this is a national scandal. To simply 'bury' these helicopters in landfill is a national disgrace - why we could not sell them is simply absurd - and if it was not due to the brilliant accountability of Senate Estimates Australians and the world would probably have never known. Australia's Dept of Defence is 'the' most secret Department in the entire APS. Globally - only the US arguably is more secretive. Billions wasted. A giant cover up - and 0 accountability. No sackings of APS civilian DoD staff, 0 sackings of the bloated mid level officer cadre at Russell. In other words - business as usual.

Norway has calceled the NH90 contract becouse of delivery delays. bad service program, and so on. We have now ordered Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk Helicopters instead. This should do us well for several years. Love from Norway

The NH 90 sold 600 copies, these technical problems have been resolved and it is moving to blocks 2😊

Australian Military cancelled their order to buy this NH90. Because this helicopter is grounded. They want Black Hawk in their military.👍

Too unreliable with an availability rate of 44%

By far the best analysis I have ever seen of the "problem case" NH-90. As is usually the case with projects in which the Germans are involved, it should be something that can do everything - this of course increases the potential sources of error exponentially - as we saw "recently" with the Puma. But now it seems that they have learned from their mistakes and are increasingly using CotS/PotS. I still think it's right that the developer nations stuck with the project despite the high maintenance costs. This is the only way to build up the necessary know-how... The NGRC program offers European manufacturers the opportunity to show whether they can now keep up with their colleagues from the States... P.S. A similar video about the (HAD/UH) Tiger would be even more interesting 😉🤞

US Black Hawk is battle proven, others?

Preferred on AW/MH-101

The best Helis are those, who fly. Therefore my choice: Airbus H145M and Chinook. There we know, what we get.

If the NH-90 is so good,why is Australia scraping their NH90s and replacing them with Black Hawk Helicopters.i wish the New Zealand government hadn't bought the NH90 Helicopters for our Air Force

I wonder how it holds up against the Merlin?

NH-90 should be the world's best helo in its class - but it isn't. In fact it's a perfect example of how not to run an international aircraft programme.

Its finished man thats it no more NH90. UH-60M Blackhawks have touched down under

The NH90 and variants were good helicopters. Just pushed out of use due to the US and the decreasing demand of equipment from their customers. Nh90 is better than the Blackhawk.

Too many heads coming with too many ideas and too many requirements. The story of every multinational program in Europe involving Germany.

First things first. The UH-60 is not a 'tricycle' gear helicopter. Fixed or otherwise. It's a _tail dragger_. Think about it, where the single, steerable, wheel on the child's toy is located. The NH-90 is closer in mission role to the CH-46, not the UH-60M. As such, if you want to compare it with a post-millennium similar class airframe, you need to look at the V-22 Osprey. Another all-composite wonder with similar, horrific, composite failure mode issues. Plastic airplanes crack. When they crack in main structural longeron or frame areas ALL the associated airframe skin/frames also is immediately compromised. It is 50:50 whether you can send them for rebuild as the cracks can be long, across multiple sub-assemblies and/or change the stress lines from failing structures such that poor load transference causes accelerative failure in downstream airframe sections, elsewhere. For awhile, the V-22 had a limited carry through failure that caused the fuselage to break behind the cockpit if it passed over more than a 6" bump in the ground during _taxi_. Plastic airplanes also BURN, to like shredded trash bag levels of Class-A writeoff. That said, the Sikorsky S-92 is the airframe which most closely mirrors the capabilities of the NH-90. And it is seeing continued sales in the offshore oil rig and remote resources/SAR roles because it is not designed to fold a gallon into a pint pot and make it weight compatible with air transport. The Crashhawk, which has _terrible_ bladeloading and power issues is the latter airframe. You cannot make a squad carrying utility helicopter airframe into a mini-CH and not expect bad things to happen, as the UH-60s own crash record has often shown. Helicopters are inherently dangerous mission platforms. If you don't respect the whole 'beat the air into submission, not fly but repel the earth' reality of their physics driven existence you will become a victim of their vagaries of behavior, no matter how well designed their FLCS or airframes. They also basically suspend a couple dozen TONS of weight from a few bolts and a mast shaft going through a swash plate or rotor hinge which makes them obscenely maintenance intensive as all of those bits and bobs, even when constructed of the toughest steels we have, will suffer very fast wear and tear. You will pay that price as cyclical availability and large downtimes as well or again, the airframe will fly itself apart during completely normal, let alone aggressively close to the ground, combat, operations. In the opinion of many, the USMC would have been better off sticking with a conventional helicopter like the NH-90 or EH-101, midway between a Stallion and a Skid. The V-22 got us further into deep STOM territory but came with too many compromises to size, complexity, cost and safety issues, as well as needing a host of escorts and support platforms which frankly are not often available in the mid-300nm radius condition it operates better at than a conventional helicopter. Today, with electric propulsor auxilliary fan technology and some rather clever, conventional, design understandings as far as profile weight and fuel burn margins, we could do considerably better with an NH-90 type platform but our commitment to the V-22 all but ensures the Europeans will get there first, with NGRC. The big issue is whether any of the design houses (Westland, Agusta, Aerospatiale) will be able to stay liquid as Europe's primary civilian economies continue this massive nose dive inherent to slapping their primary energy/food/resources supplier Russia while continuing to maintain an open-door policy to MENA states which are rapidly devolving society to a second/third world levels nanny state. If your government cannot afford an army to control its insurgent populations, finding customers to push sales to will be based entirely on costs and here China and Russia will both begin to pull ahead with combat tested, superior price point, designs.

You can’t even proof read your title? Narration too is ai generated!

Since the NH-90 is standing on the shoulders of the UH-60, it might just surpass the Hawk. Nothing surprising to be honest.

Airwolf is better than any other.

You should write a proper title

NH90, or do you mean MRH90?

NH90 is far too fragile to operate in demanding battlefield conditions. All operators report lack of availably due to breakdowns & expensive maintenance. Australia have retired it's fleet after just 10 years they gave up on it as their harsher environment tore it apart. Cooler climates it faired better but still far below expectations with operators in a constant battle to keep them airworthy due to mechanical & build issues. Norway cancelled & demand their money back, Sweden followed them also citing the same problems. Nations that have stuck with it limited it's use or withdrawn it from certain naval operations as it has issues of stability in high winds making it unable to land on flightdecks.

NH90 why so many problems with this copter?!

Spoiler alert: NO

I think I’ll pas , I wont wanna sit on top of a fuel tank , while being shot at from below

UK USE THESE Merlins as AEW ONBOARD CARRIERS

Came back from all its operations... well yes, I suppose when your fighting sandal wearing goat herders that not that much of a boast :D

Still blackhawk quality

The AW189, the westland wildcat and the old caracal are much better than the nh90. Much better, more rugged, battle proven.

Nh 90 only is only bettef in rusting while you look at it

Airbus NH90 The Tiger seems to be more modern and navy worthy helicopter to counter enemy submarine and sabotaging activities. Aside smoother in above ocean manuaver. Good choice for Indian Navy. Recently MH60 Romeo helicopter was inducted.

Trying to do everything but as a result can't do anything well! Who needs the ramp in such a helicopter? It can't carry any military vehicle even the lightest military jeeps, it is just complete waste of resources..

Australia got rid of there NH-90s and bought more Blackhawks to replace them. Obviously the NH-90s were junk..

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Je croyais que les Australiens avaient dit que c'était de la merde le NH90, ont m'aurait mentis ?

NH90 = It doesn't fill the expectations (TRASH). Australia and Norway said so. Germany has the same opinion with an availability rate less than 40%. The Black Hawk is battle proven and no issues.

The NH90 for maritime operations is absolute trash, is a plastic pile of shit with no power to even carry 2 torpedos. Its ok for SAR uses.

Only Russian helicopters nothing elese

This helicopter is garbage. The EH-101 flies circles around it !

Nh 90 regretted by Manu eu countries

Doesnt matter if its better in every category if its so expensive to maintain that you wont fly it. The Swedish verdict is that its a piece of crap that was bought by morons in our military

the NH 90 is a piece of crap why australia chose to buy them now they have scrapped them due to another crash. The blackhawk is now back in the adf. Now the tiger is the last to go which will be replaced by the apache which the adf shouldve bought instead of the toothless tiger

Long story short.. European engineering