New Partnership Targets Polish Helicopter Modernisation

Babcock has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus and CAE to partner together to offer a comprehensive package of military helicopters and associated training services to the Polish Air Force.

The partnership brings together three service providers who will leverage their combined expertise on a proposal to provide Poland with powerful new defence capabilities as part of the ongoing modernisation of Polish helicopter aviation.

Under the terms of the MoU, Babcock will provide training, Airbus will lead on the platform design and build, and CAE will deliver the simulation capabilities.

Ludovic Boistot, Head of Sales Eastern Europe and CIS at Airbus Helicopters, said: “The H145 is the perfect four tonne class dual use helicopter, equipped to perform a wide range of military missions, including training, disaster relief, search and rescue special forces, light attack and more. It’s been used for these missions by key NATO and European allies of Poland such as the US, UK and Germany. We are confident that together with our training partners Babcock and CAE, who are world renowned companies in the fields of military training, we will provide the Polish military with the best multirole helicopter and the best training conditions to modernise the Air Force University of Deblin for their future Apache and other rotary-wing pilots.”