On November 30, two new H225M Caracal helicopters were delivered to the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF). These are the last two units of the four additional units that the country ordered from Airbus Helicopters in 2018, and with which, with another eight that it already had available, it completes a fleet of twelve EC275s, which is how these aircraft were previously known.
These helicopters are equipped with emergency flotation equipment, a fast roping system, a cargo sling and electro-optical systems. Its main tasks are focused on combat search and rescue missions, conventional search and rescue tasks and the transport of troops. The two new units will be part of RTAF Squadron 203.
Airbus Helicopters began deliveries of the four EC725 helicopters initially ordered by the RTAF in 2012 in 2015, and in 2015 supplied two more, ordered in the last quarter of 2014 along with five EC645 T2s,the latter destined for the country’s Navy.