Tiger Development Status Overview

The Franco-German TIGER Antitank Helicopter Programme stays in full scale development for the basic vehicle and system areas as well as for the mission equipment packages. According to the main development contract the development of these weapon systems PAH2, HAC, HAP includes furtheron flight testing of five prototypes in the various configurations up to their qualification as well as logistics- and series preparation development. The first flight of PT1 was accomplished on April 27, 1991. With starting flight testing an essential development step is reached. This paper focuses mainly on work presently being done, and thus related to first prototype and accompanying work for the second and third prototype, mainly dedicated to basic system testing.