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The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) has ordered seven additional Tiger HAD attack helicopters. These rotor-craft will be delivered in 2017-18.
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The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has informed Congress that Australia is keen to buy three more CH-47Fs.
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Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that ordered the Japanese government to pay Fuji Heavy Industries damages after a promised contract for 62 AH-64Ds were downsized to just 10 airframes.
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A Spanish Army Chinook, a Cougar and a Tiger flew aboard French Navy amphibious assault ship BPC Dixmude off the Spanish coast on Dec. 4 for flight deck qualifications.
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The military of Yemen that is fighting the Saudi Arabian-led coalition has modified the S 75’s surface-to-air missiles into unguided rockets. The new Qahir 1 rocket was launched at King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia during one attack on Dec. 13.
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