The overseas deployment of Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy helicopters is always a logistical challenge worth seeing.<\/p>\n
To ship these helicopters to Iraq<\/strong>, Spain has two means: the first is to take them aboard the \"Juan Carlos I\" L-61 aircraft of the Spanish Navy to Kuwait, as was done in 2018, and the second is to hire one of the huge Antonov An-124 Ruslan from the Ukrainian company Antonov Airlines<\/strong>, which carry out heavy cargo flights all over the world. This second option is much cheaper and faster.<\/p>\n The Spanish Army is going to deploy its new CH-47F Chinook in Iraq for the first time<\/strong> for the ISPUHEL XX contingent. The helicopters belong to the Transport Helicopter Battalion V (BHELTRA V). The Task Force Toro<\/strong>, formed by Spanish soldiers deployed at the Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, will have the Chinooks for the second time, but this time newly modernized. The Army has shown today the boarding of two of these helicopters on a Ukrainian An-124<\/strong> from Antonov Airlines, in a fast-motion video:<\/p>\n
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