Tagged: Al-Shabaab in Somalia

Kenya and Uganda will in the coming months receive advanced attack military helicopters in a bid to modernize and to strengthen AMISOM’s onslaught against Al-Shabaab in Somalia. (Photo by intelligencebriefs.com)

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21 January 2018

Five Bell UH-1H Huey IIs delivered to Uganda

Bell Helicopter has completed production of five UH-1H-II Huey IIs for the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force (UPDF) at its facility in Ozark, Alabama, where they were reworked from US Army UH-1H airframes. They departed...

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Five Bell UH-1H Huey IIs delivered to Uganda

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