As Minister of National Defence Tomasz Siemoniak announced earlier, on 29th March multipurpose helicopters for the Land Forces, Polish Navy and the Air Force were put out to tender.
According to the Operational Program “Combat support, logistics and VIP transport helicopters” in 2009-2018, the contract concerns 26 helicopters in four different versions:
16 items for the Land Forces
- – multipurpose-transport helicopter
7 items for Polish Navy
- – counter-submarine helicopter – 4 items
- – search and rescue helicopter – 3 items
3 items for the Air Force
- – search and rescue helicopter
Taking rationality of spending public money under consideration the principle of buying all the helicopters with identical base platform was accepted. The order also comprises logistic and training set including simulators.
The purchase of helicopters will be financed from the means of Technical Modernisation Program. The supply of the helicopters should finish in 2017.
