The Australian federal government will be retiring its entire fleet of European-made Taipan helicopters around 15 years earlier than planned in favour of U.S.-made Black Hawks and Seahawk helicopters.
“The performance of the MRH90 Taipan has been an ongoing and well-documented concern for defence and there has been a significant effort at great expense to try to remediate those issues,” Defence Minister Peter Dutton said in a statement.
