Bro actually forgot why nobody wants to replace the chinook π
The rear end of the CH-47 looks like semi perfect Cell. Once you see it you'll never be able to unsee it.
Miss my old office ! 67U do it all !!
OK, great... so why does nobody want to replace the Chinook?
reliability and capability essential for use across fifty years and later choppers just havent matched them or come close to being better. The Vietnam choppers just brilliant and yes some more fancy later attack choppers and providing weaponry and later tech but for utility and logistics Hueys and chooks vital. Australia bought rebuilt chooks and has faced numerous other disastrous helicopter projects. The capability of the chooks vital in the sandpits.
Somehow I think they are trying to make a variant that can lift MBTs
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No one has a problem replacing the Chinook. However, they do want it to be replaced with something superior, which is difficult.
The cargobob
Haha it's a lightweight compared to our comrades whirly birdies
There's no reason to replace it because they got it right already, they just keep updating the design and making more becayse if you designed a brand new tandem helicopter it wouldn't be an improvement and now you have to spend another 20 years shaking the bugs out.
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