{"id":730,"date":"2015-02-05T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2015-02-05T19:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:05:37","slug":"botswana-police-orders-three-as-350b3e-from-airbus-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Police Orders Three AS-350B3e From Airbus Helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news_story\">\n<div id=\"news_content_0\" class=\"span_news_content\">\n<p><strong>Botswana\u2019s Police Service today signed for a contract for three new AS-350B3e Ecureuil Airbus Helicopters aircraft for its Police Air Support Branch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_778\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botswana-Police-Service-Airbus-AS-350-B3e-Helicopters_050215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botswana-Police-Service-Airbus-AS-350-B3e-Helicopters_050215.jpg\" alt=\"AS-350B3e Ecureui\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botswana-Police-Service-Airbus-AS-350-B3e-Helicopters_050215.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botswana-Police-Service-Airbus-AS-350-B3e-Helicopters_050215-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Botswana\u2019s Police Air Support Branch Airbus AS-350B3e Ecureuil Helicopters (\u00a9 Airbus Helicopters Southern Africa Pty Ltd)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new helicopters will be customised to the Botswana Police Service\u2019s specification, including the installation of night vision equipment for night-time operations and other law enforcement equipment. The start of delivery of the new aircraft is scheduled for later in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The additional helicopters with their enhanced capability will fulfil Botswana\u2019s requirement for an expanded airborne law enforcement and crime prevention force.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus Helicopters Southern Africa General Manager, Arnaud Montalvo said: \u201cWe are proud to continue our relationship with the Botswana Police Air Support Unit and that it has selected the AS350 B3e, which has a proven pedigree in police missions \u2013 especially in hot and high conditions typical of the much of Botswana. We are confident these aircraft will make an enormous contribution to safeguarding the citizens of Botswana and their property\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the helicopters, Airbus Helicopters will also train Botswana Police Air Support Branch pilots and mechanics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Source: www.defenseworld.net ~ 28 January 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana\u2019s Police Service today signed for a contract for three new AS-350B3e Ecureuil Airbus Helicopters aircraft for its Police Air Support Branch. The new helicopters will be customised to the Botswana Police Service\u2019s specification,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,175,1,7,31,18],"tags":[613,609,608,611,610,612],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}