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LooseSeal Posted February 19, 2022 Posted February 19, 2022 Really amazing aircraft. I'm building a scale model of it at the moment. Doubt we'd see it in DCS for a long time, if ever, but man... it would be cool. - i7-7700k - 32GB DDR4 2400Mhz - GTX 1080 8GB - Installed on SSD - TM Warthog DCS Modules - A-10C; M-2000C; AV8B; F/A-18C; Ka-50; FC-3; UH-1H; F-5E; Mi-8; F-14; Persian Gulf; NTTR
Rick50 Posted April 4, 2022 Posted April 4, 2022 Indeed! Related to this one, in this interesting presentation about drones in real world, the author presents operating and maintenance costs... and while many other airframes are represented from Hornets $9.2m to Raptors $22m and Spirits $63m, apparently the AH-1Z costs $4.2 million USD to maintain and operate, per year, compared to the AH-64 Apache at 2.5 million a year. Now... I wonder if his source was talking about an A model, instead of a D or E? Thing is, I can't help but think it's not even so much about the differences between these two birds... but more about where they live: Marines are on the ocean. Salt water. Corrosion cleaning, protection, a great many more inspections perhaps? Anyway it's a great video packed with lots of information from lessons and observations from the last month, but if you just wanna see the cost chart jump to 24 minutes!
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