Aircraft
Turkey in Urgent Quest for Helicopter Gunships
While it looks forward to accepting its first TAI/AgustaWestland T129 attack helicopter, Turkey is urgently seeking interim helicopter gunships in the face
Turkey is building the T129 version of the AgustaWestland AW129 attack helicopter but is urgently seeking other aircraft to fill its interim need for helicopter gunships. (Photo: AgustaWestland)
Turkey is building the T129 version of the AgustaWestland AW129 attack helicopter but is urgently seeking other aircraft to fill its interim need for helicopter gunships. (Photo: AgustaWestland)

While it looks forward to accepting its first TAI/AgustaWestland T129 attack helicopter, Turkey is urgently seeking interim helicopter gunships in the face of increased terrorist actions by the PKK and other Kurdish separatist groups. The situation has become desperate as Turkey's current force of Bell AH-1W Cobras has fallen to just six operational aircraft, plus a few earlier single-engine Cobras. 

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