Black Hawk Helicopters On Offer To Hungary

Budapest, April 9 (MTI) – US aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft is offering for sale to Hungary its popular Black Hawk helicopters, some of which are currently participating in a Dutch-led international exercise near Varpalota in western Hungary, US commercial counselor Robert Peaslee said today.

“If Hungary purchases these aircraft, it will have the same helicopters as the US army in the decades ahead,” Stanley J. Prusinski, a Sikorsky representative for eastern Europe, said at the Budaors airport where two models from 1986 were presented to members of the press at an event organised by the US embassy.

Hungary could buy either the US-made UH-60M models or the S-70i Black Hawk models that are manufactured in Poland, he added. These helicopters have unmatched capabilities and have also been used and tested in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, he added.

Defence Minister Csaba Hende told MTI at the end of 2013 that preparations for helicopter and aircraft purchases were under way. He told commercial station InfoRadio in January that helicopters were needed not only for military purposes but also for police, terror prevention, disaster management and the ambulance services.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters