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

Over the programme to upgrade Tiger helicopters to the Mark 3 version, equipped with fresh avionics and armament, more black clouds are gathering. The largest user of these machines, France, is considering limiting this program in the current Armed Forces Financing Program until 2030. Strike chopper is not as crucial a precedence as the H160M Geopard multirole or fresh vehicles for ground troops. afraid about this situation, the heads of the 4 largest companies - Airbus, Thales, Safran and MBDA - wrote a letter to French defence Minister Sébastien Lecorn on the matter.