Probably not. We only destroyed the classified stuff, there’s no reason to make them unsafe and endanger people when you can buy them used for a couple hundred thousand anyway.
My cousin was civilian DOD in charge of Bagram during the exit. Orders were to decommission anything useful and it was like Christmas for the Marines. Break everything was the rule. Everything.
Neat. It was widely publicized that that did not happen, they got the secret shit broken and then moved to making them junkpiles. Some got hammered to bits and others just got broke windshields and such.
A new UH-60L is around $10-$20 million depending on avionics and weapons, and I am under the impression that even an old 1990s A-variant would still cost upwards of $2 million.
A combat used, desert abandoned Blackhawk without necessary maintainance records can’t be sold in any country that cares about that which is pretty much everyone but poor middle eastern countries and Russia. That makes it a couple hundred thousand (essentially the scrap value) and we’ve been dumping these things across the planet for the last 30 years so there’s no shortage of crappy barely flight worthy ones popping about.
My guess is they bought the DCS Huey to learn how to fly out but refused to buy the collective. Keyboard and mouse to collective is very disorienting.
Probably not. We only destroyed the classified stuff, there’s no reason to make them unsafe and endanger people when you can buy them used for a couple hundred thousand anyway.
My cousin was civilian DOD in charge of Bagram during the exit. Orders were to decommission anything useful and it was like Christmas for the Marines. Break everything was the rule. Everything.
Neat. It was widely publicized that that did not happen, they got the secret shit broken and then moved to making them junkpiles. Some got hammered to bits and others just got broke windshields and such.
A new UH-60L is around $10-$20 million depending on avionics and weapons, and I am under the impression that even an old 1990s A-variant would still cost upwards of $2 million.
One example: https://www.hangar67.com/aircraft-for-sale/turbine-helicopters/sikorsky/uh60a-black-hawk
A combat used, desert abandoned Blackhawk without necessary maintainance records can’t be sold in any country that cares about that which is pretty much everyone but poor middle eastern countries and Russia. That makes it a couple hundred thousand (essentially the scrap value) and we’ve been dumping these things across the planet for the last 30 years so there’s no shortage of crappy barely flight worthy ones popping about.
My guess is they bought the DCS Huey to learn how to fly out but refused to buy the collective. Keyboard and mouse to collective is very disorienting.
Haha, good point. I stand corrected. :)