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DND Orders 16 More Blackhawks For PAF

16 November 2021

The Department of Defense (DND) has ordered another set of Sikorsky UH-70 Black Hawk helicopters from defense company Lockheed Martin to be manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft subsidiary in Poland Polskie Zaklady Lotnicze Mielec with a price tag of US$242 million.

According to DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, another set of 16 black hawk helicopters will be delivered starting the second quarter of 2023 also in three batches, as he signed the purchase agreement in Warsaw last week.

Lorenzana also disclosed that he also went to Airbus CASA facility in Spain to personally inspect the progress of the three additional C-295W the government ordered for the Philippine Air Force which will start delivery next year.

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