Canada To Fly Griffons As Chinook Escorts in Afghanistan

CALLED UP: Canada is to send eight of its Bell CH-146 Griffon utility helicopters to Afghanistan to escort six Boeing CH-47D Chinooks being acquired from the U.S. Army. The Griffons will be equipped with a new electro-optical/infrared sensor and enhanced door gun, and will be stripped of...

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