Threat to Tiger Mk3. France cuts costs? [ANALYSIS]

Over the Tiger chopper upgrade program to the Mark 3 version, equipped with fresh avionics and weapons, more black clouds gather. The largest user of these machines, France, is considering limiting this programme in the 2030 Armed Forces backing programme presently under development. The impact chopper is not as crucial a precedence as the H160M Geopard multi-purpose H160M Geopard or fresh vehicles for land troops. afraid about this situation, the heads of the 4 largest companies - Airbus, Thales, Safran and MBDA - wrote a letter to the French defence minister Sébastien Lecorn.