Germany signed a contract with Eurocopter at ILA, Berlin’s air show yesterday for the retrofit of six more CH53G transport helicopters to be converted for special missions with the German Army.

The helicopters will be fitted with ballistic self protection and specific mission equipment. The order is worth approximately €24 million, a large proportion of which will go to medium-sized German equipment manufacturers.

The German Army will take delivery of the urgently-needed transport helicopters between May and November 2009.

The order aims to close some of the operational gaps that currently exist in part of the German Army’s fleet of CH53G helicopters, in particular to the defensive mission equipment for protecting the crews and helicopters while flying missions.

The centrepiece of the retrofit is the integration of an EloKa (electronic warfar

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