Patria at Global Defence Helicopter 2024

At the event, Patria concentrates to showcase its Helicopter lifecycle management services within the Patria OPTIME service concept highlighting the upgraded UH-60 Black Hawks offering launched last year at the same event.

Extreme conditions embedded - Patria’s highlighted offering at GDH 2024

Through life capability

Patria OPTIME covers a broad range of services and solutions impacting the fleet availability, such as fleet maintenance, upcoming modification projects and needed integrations in the later stages of the lifecycle as well as supply chain management and training services. The new service concept for the sustainment of military equipment combines engineering expertise with efficient data utilization in a modular and tailored way and it is set up in phases together with the customer.

Patria and United Aero Group (UAG) entered in 2023 into strategic cooperation agreement to acquire second-hand Black Hawks from US Army and perform refurbishment programme and upgrades including mission kit installations. After undergoing this modernization Black Hawks will be capable of taking on a wider range of missions with increased efficiency and capabilities.  

For further information: 

Hugo Vanbockryck, Senior Vice President, Market Area Europe, Patria, 
tel.+32 471 98 91 01, [email protected]

Patria is an international provider of defence, security and aviation life cycle support services, technology solutions and pilot training. Patria provides its aerospace and military customers with equipment availability, continuous performance development as well as selected intelligence, surveillance and management system products and services. Patria’s mission is to give its customers confidence in all conditions, and the vision is to be the #1 partner for critical operations on land, sea and air. Patria has several locations including Finland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Spain. Patria employs over 3,000 professionals. Patria is owned by the State of Finland (50.1%) and Norwegian Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (49.9%). Patria owns 50% of Nammo, and together these three companies form a leading Nordic defence partnership. 
www.patriagroup.com