“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.
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.
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
“We recently terminated a contract with Airbus Helicopters to purchase H225 helicopters," Muammar Abdulla Abushehab, defense and security industry affairs sector chief for the Tawazun council, said in a May 8 interview.
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.’