Airbus Helicopters has delivered the primary H225M in naval fight configuration to the Brazilian Navy. Stationed on the naval base in São Pedro d’Aldeia, the plane will increase the Brazilian Navy’s mission capabilities together with anti-surface warfare and maritime surveillance. The final stage of the firing marketing campaign with the Exocet AM39 B2M2 missiles was efficiently carried out final June, representing a significant milestone within the programme, which led the best way to qualification and supply. The naval H225M is a part of the contract signed by the Brazilian authorities in 2008 and which incorporates 50 H225Ms to be operated by the three armed forces. To this point, 39 H225Ms have been delivered to the Brazilian Armed Forces, all of them assembled domestically by Helibras.
“We’re very happy with this achievement, which proves the commercial and technological functionality of the Airbus Helicopters groups in France and Brazil to ship one of the vital fashionable options on the planet to the Brazilian Armed Forces,” mentioned Alberto Robles, Head of Latin America at Airbus Helicopters. “Designed to satisfy probably the most demanding necessities of the Brazilian Navy, the superior anti-surface warfare and tactical capabilities open new mission capabilities for the H225M utility helicopter.”
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Developed by the engineering crew at Helibras (the Brazilian subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters), this naval model of the H225M plane is probably the most complicated configuration that has ever been produced for this multirole helicopter. The plane’s embedded techniques embrace the EWS IDAS-3 (countermeasure system), MBDA Exocet AM39 B2M2 missiles, the APS143 tactical radar and the naval mission system N-TDMS (Naval Tactical Knowledge Administration System) developed in partnership with Atech and Airbus Protection and House, which is liable for making the command and management of all embedded techniques, together with the missile system.
Airbus Helicopters H225M (Caracal / Tremendous Cougar) is a long-range tactical transport navy helicopter developed from the Eurocopter AS532 Cougar for navy use. It’s a twin-engined plane and may carry as much as 28 seated troops together with two crew, relying on buyer configuration. The helicopter is marketed for troop transport, casualty evacuation, and fight search and rescue duties, and is just like the civilian EC225 Tremendous Puma. The armed model carries as a pair of seven.62 mm FN MAG machine weapons mounted, pair of 68 mm (2.75″) Thales side-mounted rocket launchers, MU90 Influence aerial-launched torpedo and Hellfire air-to-surface missiles
