Eurocopter Tiger ARH
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Australian Army Aviation

Use of the Tiger by Army Aviation has been a long time coming. It eventually won a competition on 21 Dec 2001, for an Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) started in 1998, against the AH-64D, Agusta 129, the South African Rooivalk, Bell AH-1Z and the S-70 Battlehawk.

First 4 delivered directly by Eurocopter in Dec 2004 and the rest were assembled locally by Australian Aerospace at Brisbane, the last of the initial batch of 22 on 1 Dec 2011.

Replaced the Kiowa and Huey on operations.

Final Operating Capability achieved by 1st Aviation Regiment on April 2016.
As of 2019, the 22 helicopters have surpassed 30,000 flight hours