{"id":28445,"date":"2016-09-02T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=28445"},"modified":"2017-03-21T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:13:25","slug":"auditors-get-teeth-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/auditors-get-teeth-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"The auditors get their teeth into the Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are plenty of ‘headline issues’ in the Australian national Audit Office’s<\/span> new report on the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance helicopter<\/span><\/a>. That’s not surprising, given that the government<\/span> effectively gave up on the aircraft<\/span><\/a> as a long term prospect in the Defence White Paper earlier this year, announcing that it would be replaced rather than upgraded in the 2020s.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the face of it, the performance figures cited by the ANAO suggest that the Tiger was a poor choice. Even after a protracted development program that led to final operational capability being a full seven years late, there\u2019s still a litany of issues:<\/span><\/p>\n