Germany Will Have 2nd Largest Helicopter Fleet In NATO

Germany will have NATO’s second-largest fleet of helicopters with the 60 Chinooks it announced it would buy last month, German air force chief Ingo Gerhartz said on Friday.

Last month, Reuters reported that Germany would buy 60 Chinook helicopters from Boeing in a package that will cost up to 8 billion euros ($8.7 billion), including the necessary infrastructure for the plane.

“We will be the second-largest helicopter nation in NATO after the United States,” Gerhartz was quoted as saying by the RND media network.

Around 50 Chinook helicopters would be stationed at the Holzdorf/Schoenewalde site in eastern Germany, where an additional 1,000 troops will also be stationed, Gerhartz added.

“The Schoenewalde site will play a unique key role for the Air Force, the entire Bundeswehr and the security of Germany,” he said.

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With Reuters

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