(07/06/24) The German Ministry of the Inside has ordered as much as 44 H225 helicopters for the Bundespolizei, the nation’s Federal Police.
This file order for the H225 consists of 38 agency orders with choices for a additional six, in addition to coaching and spare half packages.
The helicopter’s payload, vary and superior techniques permit it to conduct a big array of regulation enforcement and homeland safety missions, starting from particular forces transport to firefighting and catastrophe aid.
The H225 will exchange the H155 and AS332 helicopters which have been in service with the Bundespolizei for greater than 20 years.
Bundespolizei Airbus H225. Image: Airbus
The brand new mission and communication system on the H225 ensures improved situational consciousness and clean information transmission between police forces. It additionally has an improved important gearbox and an prolonged well being and utilization monitoring system, which will increase security and helps to avoid wasting prices.
With a most takeoff weight of 11,160 kg, the H225 provides an elevated vary of extra than 832 kilometers (1,107 km with exterior gas tanks) and an exterior payload of 4,750 kg, important for missions like catastrophe aid and firefighting.
Deliveries are scheduled to start out in 2029.
“I wish to thank Germany for its continued and renewed belief in our helicopters and specifically in our H225 household. We’re proud that our H225 will contribute to the safety of Germany and assist its residents in want,” stated Bruno Even, CEO of Airbus Helicopters. “The Bundespolizei can stay up for a trendy helicopter because of the continual enhancements we’ve made to our H225 lately. It should stay some of the superior helicopters out there in the marketplace for the many years to come.”
The German Bundespolizei operates 94 Airbus helicopters, starting from the single-engine H120 used for pilot coaching, to greater than 40 twin-engine H135 household helicopters for a number of missions together with emergency medical providers on behalf of the Federal Workplace of Civil Safety and Catastrophe Help (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe), and the Tremendous Puma household, of which the H225 is the newest variant.
The partnership started in 1962, when the Bundespolizei (at the moment Bundesgrenzschutz) began operation of its Alouette II, manufactured by Airbus predecessor firm Aérospatiale.
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