Video/PHOTOS: 1st Belgian NH90 handed over Friday 21 Dec....

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EDIT: date corrected...

http://www.skynet.be/nieuws-sport/nieuw ... g-geleverd

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenland ... verd.dhtml

This Friday 21 December 2012 the first Belgian military NH-90, a TTH (Tactical Transport)-version, will be officially delivered at Marignane in the presence of the Belgian Secretary of Defence.

As http://luchtzak.be/forums/viewtopic.php ... 41#p273741 states:

This medium-weight helicopter, built by the European consortium NHIndustries (NHI), is part of an order for eight aircraft in total - four TTH and four naval version (NFH) - plus two optional TTH, passed in June 2007 for a total of nearly 300 million euros.

This first NH90 has made its first flight on September 18 at the Eurocopter plant in Marignane, near Marseille.

Also:

Monday in Parliament the Belgian Secretary of Defence detailed the delivery schedule:
one TTH in 2012,
two units in 2013
and the last in 2014.

As for the version "Naval Frigate Helicopter", three helicopters to be delivered in 2013 and the last in 2014.

See http://www.belgianaviationnews.be/2012/ ... lgian.html for a serial overview, plus future colour schemes.

Photos of Friday's ceremony are (very) likely to appear during the course of the day at
http://www.mil.be/def/index.asp?LAN=nl

http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws

http://www.nhindustries.com

http://www.belgianaviationnews.be/

[Hurricane]

Hmm, this friday 19 December ... today is that friday and it is the 21st on my watch

Next to that this report remains doubtfull as Belgium MoD spokesmen replied (two weeks ago) that no NH90-TTH would be delivered this year, late Q1 2013 at the earliest possibility.

We'll see what news pops up.

[Stratofreighter]

No photo of the actual NH90 at http://www.nhindustries.com/publication ... 0_395.html


DELIVERY OF THE FIRST BELGIAN NH90
NHI is proud to announce the delivery to the Belgian Defence Forces of the first NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter.

This event occurred in the presence of Mr Pieter de Crem, Belgian Minister of Defence in Marignane (Eurocopter Facility) where the helicopter was built.

This helicopter will be based in Beauvechain, home of the 1st Wing. It will be used for Tactical transport and utility missions.

The delivery of this Full Operational Capability standard helicopter takes place four months only after its first flight in Marignane.

Belgium ordered eight NH90s, four NH90 TTH for army transport missions and four NH90 NFHs for Navy missions.

The Belgian NH90 TTH is very close to the french NH90 Caiman TTH for which deliveries started in the end of 2011 in Full Operational Capability Standard.

This commonality brings to the Belgian customer all the return of experience collected during the development of the french NH90 TTH.

The NH90 TTH (Tactical Transport Helicopter) variant is a helicopter of 11 ton class primarily configured to perform tactical transport missions in all environments by day and night. The NH90 TTH flexibility allows its users to perform additional missions such as internal/external load transport, Heliborne Operations, Special Operations, Search and Rescue, Casualties Evacuation and Training missions.

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Video of the "roll-out":
http://nieuws.vtm.be/binnenland/2012122 ... oPlay=true

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http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9096/Belgie/ph ... king.dhtml

















More photos at http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9096/Belgie/ph ... king.dhtml
Shame about the "nose job"...

[Bruno G]

A little too "low-viz" for me .... it lacks colors!
BLACK-YELLOW-RED! and not BLACK-BLACK-BLACK!

[frank kramer]

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9096/Belgie/ph ... king.dhtml



More photos at http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9096/Belgie/ph ... king.dhtml
Shame about the "nose job"...

...looks like something they forgot to translate into English: the Dutch word "Bel" should have been translated into "Ring Here"...

[ebauer]

A little too "low-viz" for me .... it lacks colors!
BLACK-YELLOW-RED! and not BLACK-BLACK-BLACK!

...looks like something they forgot to translate into English: the Dutch word "Bel" should have been translated into "Ring Here"...

Push the button...

The Belgian roundel doesn't look Belgian to me...

[Gietje]

With that nose they should have called this version the Sea Elephant!

[wvanbel]

I sure hope we got it discounted, which such a nose

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