“It’s really a strong performance [from the Super Puma], confirming that this helicopter is really well positioned and meeting well the demand of our customers,” said Bruno Even, Airbus Helicopters CEO.
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In October, The Netherlands also announced that a new unit, 300 Special Operations Squadron, based at Gilze-Rijen Air Base, southern Netherlands, had been formally stood up to support the future rotary fleet.
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“What we propose for the Loi de programmation militaire (France’s long-term defense spending program) … is incremental evolution [and] to enter into service with the VSR by 2026 or 2027,” Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even said.
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While Airbus talks with a number of “other customers,” about interest in the H175M, company executive Bruno Even expects London to “reflect” on the status of the New Medium Helicopter competition.
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Two of the helicopters will go towards Belgium’s police, while the rest will enter the army’s inventory.
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After keeping mum on the issue for weeks, minister for defense procurement Pat Conroy said Kyiv’s request came too late, months after the helos had been destined for disposal.
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“The Army may be critically without sufficient replacement Black Hawks to transition away from the grounded Taipans,” shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hastie said. That could, he said, mean the Australian Defense Force would “not have enough helicopters to perform missions, including training and exercises with international partners.”
By Colin Clark “This was a textbook response to a loss of power. The engine stopped, the crew were able to shut the engine down and to ditch the aircraft into Jervis Bay in a way where it was able to keep the aircraft upright.,” Defense Minister Richard Marles said in an appearance at Parliament.
By Colin Clark The decision to buy more Black Hawks was particularly interesting as the country is in the midst of a Defense Strategic Review assessing the full panoply of force structure and spending decisions.
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France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom will work on the concept together, while European industry will work to keep their American competitors out.
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France will only update 42 of its 67 helicopters, but hopes that Germany, with a new defense budget boost, will join the program and drive costs down.
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How to deal with the Chinese threat will probably be one of the most difficult questions for the European Union to address as it executes its first-ever strategic review, to be published in 2022 and called ‘’Strategic Compass.’
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The Navy will replace all 115 of its aged TH-57 Sea Ranger training helicopters with Leonardo’s AW119 helicopter.
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