07-Jul-21 - European Defence Agency (EDA) 15th edition of the Helicopter Exercise Programme (HEP) Hot Blade 21 (HB21) took place in Beja, Portugal in June with the participation of 21 aircraft from Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Slovenia and Portugal #HOTBLADE
27-Jun-20 - After only six years of operations, Belgium is about to ground the four NH90 TTH helicopters citing too expensive, too few spare parts and too few personnel problems #NH90
08-Mar-19 - Belgian Air Force is the new customer of Safran’ Expert link video assistance service working together with the Royal Netherlands Air Force for the support of the RTM322 engine of the NH90 helicopters #engines
06-Jul-18 - The Belgian Detatchment of 2 NH90 deployed to Gao, Mali since last March as part of peacekeeping mission MINUSMA returned home by AN-124. They were replaced by Canadian Griffons #peacekeeping
08-May-18 - Portugal hosting for 4th time the European Defence Agency (EDA) helicopter exercise Hot Blade. 12th edition take place at Beja May 7-23 with Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and the Netherlands
12-Feb-18 - The Belgian NH90 helicopters arrived in Mali where will be used to support the German contingent in Gao part of the United Nations MINUSMA peacekeeping mission
06-Feb-18 - Two Belgian air force NH90 were transported to Mali by a Volga-Dnepr AN-124 cargo plane. They will join the German Detachment in Gao as part of the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA for at least 4 months
27-Nov-17 - German Army’s Helicopter Transport Regiment 10 crews shared their experience as part of UN MINUSMA mission in Mali where the Belgians will take over from February 2018.
12-Sep-17 - Belgian NH90 Caiman helicopters perform first ever mission on African continent when deployed 4 weeks to Gabon to participate in exercise Tropical Storm supporting the paratroopers of the Light Brigade
