Kuwait signed a contract for delivery of 30 Caracal produced by Airbus Helicopters, to 1.070 billion euros. Deliveries of the first devices must begin within 29 months.
Kuwait chose the Caracal helicopter multimission produced by Airbus Helicopters, to modernize its fleet . Sheikh Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabahe, the Kuwaiti Minister of Defence, today signed the contract with Faury Guillaume, CEO of helicopters subsidiary of Airbus Group in Kuwait City in the presence of Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of french defense.
The contract covers the delivery of 30 Caracal worth 1.070 billion euros. Of these, 24 copies will equip Kuwaiti armed forced and 6 more will be awarded to the Kuwaiti National Guard. Deliveries of the first devices must begin within 29 months, the last will arrive in force in 49 months. The contract includes training that will be provided by the DCI, the company’s industrial partners benefit in major international contracts.
This contract with a major client of the French arms industry was completed quickly. After opening a competition, Kuwait has decided to retain Airbus Helicopters, to the detriment of its competitors, the Italian Agusta and US Sikorski and to engage in exclusive negotiations with France. The decision was sent to Jean-Yves Le Drian his counterpart on the sidelines of the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council held in Riyadh in May 2015. The two ministers met again in June 2015 in Kuwait in October 2015 then to Paris in July in Washington at the coalition meeting – Kuwait in part – of the countries fighting against the Islamic State (EI).
Other contracts could be signed in the coming months with Kuwait. The country is indeed upgrade its patrol fleet purchased in the early 1990 Shipyard Normandie (CMN). It could also buy new boats. And, in the terrestrial domain, it could order a new batch of 4×4 Sherpa, tactical and light armored vehicles built by Renault Trucks and the VAB (armored vehicles before).
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