US to sell 12 attack helicopters to Australia

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Source: AFP

The US government has decided to sell 12 attack helicopters and an electronic warfare plane to Australia for more than a billion dollars, the State Department said Friday.

Australia, which recently signed a strategic defense alliance with the United States and Britain as a way to counter a rising China, had asked to acquire 12 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters and accompanying equipment to the tune of 985 million dollars.

President Joe Biden's administration has told Congress it decided to go ahead with this sale, the State Department said.

The helicopters are multi-mission aircraft that can be deployed on a ship for operations against surface vessels or submarines, but also for rescue, refueling or transport purposes.

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[speak easy]

1. Are the Seahawks suitable for Australian conditions?

Can they land on their rotors?

[twodogsbarking]

3. They build them upside down

or downside up.

[catsudon]

2. wait wait i got this

surely they are going to be used against china

[jmowreader]

4. Seahawks aren't "attack helicopters"

An attack helicopter is made for the sole purpose of shooting at things like tanks and troop formations. Seahawks are utility helicopters.

[pfitz59]

5. Multi-mission

Including armed configurations... strap-on weapons make them "attack" helicopters.

[jmowreader]

7. The term "gunship" for an armed non-attack heli is very common

This is the helicopter in question with the External Stores Support System wings attached. You can carry all sorts of things on this - it was designed for fuel tanks, but any weapon pod that'll fit on the Apache or Cobra will also fit on this.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

6. So Japan and the Aussies will be our shock troops, cannon fodder for China's invasion

Good to know