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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=29683" target="_blank">Canada sounds out allies, suppliers for choppers and aerial drones: sources</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/13-military" target="_blank">Military</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-01-30 13:41:23
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[Loader]

Both the CH53 and CH47 are capable heavy lifters, but the CH53 may fit DNDs needs better post Afghanastan. Wonder where the crews and maintainers will come from?

[Knoss]

What about the Iroquois in mothball?

[Canadian_Mind]

CH-47 is almost as good at high and hot altitudes as it is at sea level, while the CH47 is primarily meant for sea-level.

Really, I'm thinking our best bet would be to find some good, used, in term choppers suited for Afghanistan (8 older CH47s), then hold a competition between the CH47 and the CH53 in all environments to see which is the better aircraft. Then put the 8 Chinooks we ought into mothballs, to be brought out again in wartime if the CH53s prove themselves to be incapable or lagging in certain theaters.