LEONARDO HELICOPTERS is pitching its AW149 to the UK Ministry of Defence to succeed the Royal Air Force's Puma HC2 that the recent Defence Command Paper confirmed will be phased out of service by 2025. The paper stated: "Investment in a new medium lift helicopter in the mid-2020s will enable a consolidation of the army's disparate fleet of medium lift helicopters from four platform types to one."
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