The US Army has awarded the Boeing Company a contract worth nearly $900 million for 60 CH-47F Block II cargo helicopters for Germany, under a foreign military sales agreement. The new helicopters will replace the outdated CH-53G Sea Stallion flown by the Luftwaffe.

The new helicopters will bring a modernized and more flexible heavy lift rotary-wing capacity for both the German Air Force and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a whole. Germany is one of the few countries in the world to have ever operated the CH-53, besides the United States, and heavy-lift helicopters are a core asset of its armed forces.

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