Five H225Ms with teeth headed to Brazilian Navy
The first H225M configured as a naval combat variant is expected to be delivered to the Brazilian Navy in April 2018 after military certification trials, it has emerged.
Equipped with MBDA’s Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles and an indigenous tactical mission system, four other naval combat variants will follow year-on-year through to 2022.
The unveiling of the naval combat configuration, with instrumented and mock-up AM39s on board the aircraft, took place on the 25 October at Helibras’ site in Itajubá, Brazil.
The first H225M, a multirole utility version, was delivered to the Brazilian Navy in 2014. So far six other aircraft
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