With this acquisition, an average price of a H145 is around 8 million euros and if you times that by six, the total FAP can get for 6 helicopters is worth 48 million euros. But of the allocated 53 milion euro investment, the remaining 7 euros could be for armor integration or the Hforce system. What makes us think the AW119 is cheap and good? Everything in the FAP, we are too poor to buy new ones, always financing comes from our neighbors.
It's not "us" that think a bulked AW119 is a good option. It's the politicians, they have the final decision whether the military slaveboy likes it or not. Our government nowadays is infatuated with Leonardo for some reason. If the choice was up to the military alone and without any budgetary constraints, then we wouldn't have gotten any AW119, probably wouldn't even pass in their heads as an option.
At this point the only real reason one would want more AW119 would be for logistical reasons:
-No new maintenance line
-No different chopper training
-No need to make a new squadron
They can just shove them all in the same place.
The H145 is not farfetched but right now it seems to be just a dream to all of us in this forum, we all just gonna have to learn to like the AW119, just how the G3 replacement, HK416 lovers like me will have to learn to like the SCAR-L. But who knows, maybe Santa will give us a surprise in the future. All is possible and the choice for the 6 choppers hasn't been announced yet.