Sikorsky to deliver Tunisia's last four UH-60M Blackhawk helicopters by 2019

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Sikorsky to deliver Tunisia's last four UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters by 2019
 
Sikorsky Aircraft was awarded a $79,680,022 to foreign military sales contract to Tunisia for four modified UH60M Black Hawk helicopters. Work will be performed in West Palm Beach, Florida with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2019, the US Department of Defense announced on Monday June 30, 2015.
     
Sikorsky Aircraft was awarded a $79,680,022 to foreign military sales contract to Tunisia for four modified UH60M Black Hawk helicopters. Work will be performed in West Palm Beach, Florida with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2019, the US Department of Defense announced on Monday June 30, 2015. US Army Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopter
     
The United States in July last year gave approval for the sale of 12 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Tunisia, worth $700 million including equipment, parts, training and logistical support. Delivery was scheduled for between 2017 and 2018, a date which Tunisian says has been brought forward to later this year due to heightened terrorist activity inside the country.

The country will take delivery of the first eight Black Hawk attack helicopters from the United States this year to help it in the fight against al-Qaeda-linked militants, an Tunisian official said February.

The UH-60M Black Hawk variant Tunisia will receive is the most advanced model of the UH-60/S-70 series, and features the ability to be armed with rockets and missiles. Tunisia has requested Battlehawk kits that effectively turn the aircraft into attack helicopters with 2.75 in laser guided rockets, Hellfire missiles, 7.62 mm and .50 cal machineguns, and thermal imagers and laser designators. Other equipment will include Wescam MX-15Di or Brite Star II electro-optical/infrared designators and AN/AVS-9 night-vision goggles. The countermeasures suite is to comprise AN/APR-39A(V)4 radar warning receivers, AN/AAR-57 missile warning systems, and AN/AVR-2B(V)1 laser warning systems.