Germany will buy 60 Chinook helicopters from Boeing in a package that will cost up to 8 billion euros ($8.7 billion), including necessary infrastructure for the aircraft, two members of the parliamentary budget committee told Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. Army's Boeing CH-47F Chinook arrives ahead of the opening of the International Aerospace Exhibition ILA at Schoenefeld Airport in Berlin, Germany, June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Christian Mang/File Photoin a package that will cost up to 8 billion euros , including necessary infrastructure for the aircraft, two members of the parliamentary budget committee told Reuters on Wednesday.The sum includes the procurement of the CH-47 heavy-lift helicopters for 6.
Forty-seven of the helicopters will be based in the town of Holzdorf, some 50 kms south of Berlin, a military source said, adding that the first of several Arrow-3 missile defence units GermanyBuilt to intercept long-range missiles, the Arrow-3 system will be able to protect large parts of Germany and Poland from Holzdorf, according to the source who said the town would be one of three locations where Arrow-3 will be based in Germany.
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