{"id":47901,"date":"2022-07-03T22:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47901"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:59:53","slug":"viper-and-venom-the-video-of-bell-offering-its-most-modern-helicopters-to-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/03\/viper-and-venom-the-video-of-bell-offering-its-most-modern-helicopters-to-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Viper and Venom: the video of Bell offering its most modern helicopters to Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threats directed by Russia to Poland, this country is immersed in a major weapons purchase process.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/14\/the-huge-arms-purchases-that-poland-prepares-to-defend-itself-from-russia\/\">The huge arms purchases that Poland prepares to defend itself from Russia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/02\/k2-black-panther-this-is-the-advanced-main-battle-tank-that-poland-is-considering-buying\/\">K2 Black Panther: this is the advanced main battle tank that Poland is considering buying<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>As far as helicopters are concerned, <strong>both the Polish Army Air Force and Ground Forces still have old Mil Mi-24, Mi-8 and Mi-17 of Soviet origin<\/strong>, as well as PZL Mi-2 and W-3 Polish-made Sok\u00f3\u0142 that also need a replacement. To replace the Mi-24, Poland has received offers from two American companies: <strong>Bell, which offers the AH-1Z Viper<\/strong> (the most advanced version of the already classic Cobra), and <strong>Boeing, which has proposed its AH-64E Apache.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Friday, <strong>Bell released a video offering Poland both the AH-1Z and the most modern version of its classic Huey, the UH-1Y Venom<\/strong>, both used by Marines aboard US Navy LHDs. It so happens that <strong>both models have already been exported to the Czech Republic<\/strong>, a country very close to Poland (both are part of the Visegrad Group). <strong>Bell has published this video with texts in Polish<\/strong>, clearly addressing its potential buyer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Environmentally Hardened for the Modern Battlefield\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCnbrdZMXj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Bell has offered these helicopters to Poland: <a href=\"https:\/\/defence24.com\/bell-helicopter-offer-for-poland-and-czech-republic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it was already offered in 2015<\/a>. Bell plays with the price advantage: two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/press-media\/major-arms-sales\/philippines-apache-ah-64e-attack-helicopters-and-related-equipment-and\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing offered six AH-64Es to the Philippines for $1.5 billion<\/a>, while that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/press-media\/major-arms-sales\/philippines-ah-1z-attack-helicopters-and-related-equipment-and-support\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bell offered that country six AH-1Zs for 450 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: US Marine Corps.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threats directed by Russia to Poland, this country is immersed in a major weapons purchase process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11546],"tags":[16947,16948,10370,14051,10469],"class_list":["post-47901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-bell-ah-1z-viper","tag-bell-uh-1y-venom","tag-poland","tag-polish-air-force","tag-polish-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}