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The Danish military will deploy 2 EH-101 Merlin transport helicopters to Operation Barkhane
and a C130J-transport aircraft to the UN's MINUSMA mission
October 24, 2019
https://thedefensepost.com/2019/10/24/d ... aft-sahel/In addition, Denmark will deploy two EH-101 Merlin transport helicopters
along with up to 70 personnel and one or two staff officers
to the France-led Operation Barkhane counter-terrorism mission in the Sahel.
The helicopters will be used for personnel and materiel transport,
as well as undertaking reconnaissance missions.
The release did not specify when the helicopters will be deployed to Barkhane,
but Denmark’s military attaché to Paris tweeted that the “Merlins will be based in Gao from December 2019 for one year,”
giving an overlap with the potential end of a British deployment to the mission.
The U.K. announced in July it would extend its Chinook helicopter support to Barkhane by at least six months,
and it remains unclear when those helicopters will withdrawn.