French text: The H225M "Caracal" flew for the first time on 30 November 2000. This is the first European helicopter specifically designed for the most complex mission, the combat rescue. In 2006, just days after its entry into service in the Air Force, it was employed as part of the operation Ballista in Lebanon: its autonomy, its power and its capacity for self-protection make it the ideal device to slip several hundred European nationals...
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