Tuesday, 24 December 2019

Polish Special Ops Component Receives S-70i Black Hawk Helicopters

Wojciech Mazurkiewicz via theaviationist.com

Polish Special Ops Component Receives S-70i Black Hawk Helicopters – The Aviationist

Last Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, Head of the MoD, Mariusz Błaszczak and Polish President, Andrzej Duda, as well as the US Ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, participated in an event during which Polish Special Operations Forces received 4 Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk helicopters manufactured at the PZL Mielec facility in Poland, currently owned by Lockheed Martin. The event took place at the 1st Airlift Base in Warsaw.

The agreement, worth PLN 683.4 million (177.5M USD), with the helicopters having a pricetag of 75 million apiece (19.5M USD per helicopter), also includes an equipment package that would tailor the newly acquired platform to the special ops requirements.........read rest of article


Wojciech Mazurkiewicz via theaviationist.com

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