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i get why they would want to upgrade helicopters, but why would anyone want to embarrass defence planes?!
It’s cute when they blush
When they ~~activate afterburners~~ blush I blush.
I assure you, none of our planes are cool enough to have afterburners.
We’re going to embarrass the Australian defence planes.
Just fly those new helicopters right to Canberra.
Money that could be spent actually improving the lives of the people of this country.
We've had enemy vessels in our waters in the past, the Germans sunk multiple vessels in our waters during the war, and the way things are going, I can see similar shenanigans happening again.
But if that is the case, a couple of new helicopters isn't going to help. Any potential invader that wants to take NZ is likely going to have a much stronger force than we can muster. That's why we traditionally have relied on our allies for military strength.
It's not likely we will face a full scale invasion, but commerce raiding like we saw during ww2, or illegal fishing in our waters is quite possible.
And you think these helicopters and planes will be able to fight the germans when they attack us?
I'm sure there's a mention in flight of the conchords that NZ's tanks are just donated old UK planes that don't fly anymore.
Yeah, I'm embarrassed - but more about our government and multiple iterations of it having completely shortsighted approaches to just about everything
I wonder how many inter-islanders we could buy
The boats were only going to be $550 million each.
Three billion would probably have gotten two boats, and one terminal they can actually park at.
Which is a problem, as you need two.
Seahawks and A320 series jets, both great choices.
The Seahawk is from the same family as the Black Hawk, an aircraft type operated all around the world, and the A321 is part of a family of jets operated by airlines globally, probably thousands in operation around the globe.
Both aircraft types are very popular, and operated by our allies, meaning manufacturer support should continue for decades into the future.
I think that, long term, this will represent a cost saving over trying to keep the ageing aircraft we currently have in service.
Oh no, embarrassing.
Grow up.