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Poland To Buy 70 Helicopter Worth $3 Billion

  • 12:00 AM, October 1, 2012
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Poland plans to buy 70 multi-role military helicopter and has called for a tender worth $3 billion. Competing companies include Sikorsky,Eurocopter and AgustaWestland. Valdemar Skrzypczak, Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister, said, "The armed forces want to buy 70 helicopters, and not 26 as planned previously. A tender will be completed by the end of the year and a deal should be signed by May 2013”. Earlier this year a tender was called out for 16 tactical transport for the land forces, four anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and three maritime search and rescue (SAR) helicopters for the navy and three search and rescue examples for the air force.
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