There has been much discussion about the endurance, and much of it has been centred around comments, improperly taken out of context, to the effect that: If you were to take the existing Sea King and try to put on it all of the systems that we are now expecting to put on our new helicopter, what would be its endurance? In such a case, it would be minimal.
On a beaucoup parlé de l'autonomie des appareils et une bonne partie des discussions portaient sur des commentaires, cités hors contexte, à l'effet que si on prenait les Sea King actuels et qu'on essayait de les doter de tous les systèmes qu'on espère pouvoir placer à bord de nos nouveaux hélicoptères, leur autonomie serait alors minimale.