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Australia: first launch of a Hellfire from a Tiger helicopter

Canberra, Australia - Successfully tested by hitting its target some 6 km far from its launcher

While Australian Government definitively formalizes the purchase of 12 NH-90 multirole medium helicopters in the MRH-90 version, whose deliveries will start in 2007 and go on till 2009 (with an important contribution provided by the national aerospace and defence industry concerning the assembly of the aircraft), Australian Army performed the first battle trial of the Tiger by a test fire with an AGM-114...

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Rome, Italy, 06/03/2005 13:42
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