

sama escribió:una pregunta que me ha surgido y a ver si podeis resolverla;
¿es cierto que en estados unidosa un soldado se le puede "recomendar" para la escala de oficiales?
gracias
DATE:04/01/11
SOURCE:Flight International
Army launches OH-58F cockpit and sensor upgrade programme
By Stephen Trimble
The US Army has been cleared to launch a nearly four-year, $1.98 billion project to develop the first major technology upgrade for the Bell Helicopter OH-58D Kiowa Warrior in two decades. The cockpit and sensor upgrade programme (CASUP) will convert the army's armed scout helicopter into the OH-58F model, with funding transferred from a cancelled programme that would have replaced the Kiowa Warrior with the Bell ARH-70 Arapaho.
The cockpit and sensor upgrade programme will convert the OH-58D (above) into the OH-58F. The OH-58 fleet is now programmed to remain in service until 2025, or nearly 56 years after the first examples were delivered. Lt Col Scott Rauer, Kiowa Warrior product manager, describes CASUP as a "fairly significant investment of dollars".
The work will replace the current aircraft's DRS Technologies mast-mounted sensor with a nose-mounted Raytheon common sensor payload. This will require airframe design changes, including raising the landing gear and rearranging the nose compartment. "It provides long-term sustainment and viability for the aircraft to continue its mission because the aircraft has evolved in the battlefield," Rauer says.
Canceled programs have eaten up between $3.3 billion and $3.8 billion per year since 2004, according to a set of mid-December briefing slides marked for presentation to Army Secretary John McHugh. The numbers represent an average of 35 percent to 45 percent of the Army's annual budget for development, testing and engineering, or 25 percent when factoring in the cancellation of the hugely expensive Future Combat Systems program.
Usuarios navegando por este Foro: ClaudeBot [Bot] y 0 invitados