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The AH-2 Rooivalk is a South African developed attack helicopter.
The Rooivalk was conceived in the 1980s as tankbuster operating in a
high-threat, high-intensity environment. While the true cost of the
Rooivalk may never be known, some estimates go up to R2 billion since
the project started in March 1984.
The type is essentially a gunship version of the Oryx,
itself a customised Eurocopter Cougar. Although South Africa may not be
keen to admit this for reasons of pride and the French may be equally
- as their involvement up to 1994 was in violation of a UN arms
embargo, it is known that Eurocopter and Turbomeca engineers
did extensive development work on the design.
