While the HAD version of this gunship can hold itself against helicopters with no dedicated AA weaponry, it still is a specialized anti-armor gunship and lacks capabilities to face enemy fighters or AA helicopters, so this weakness should be compensated somehow. It is able to engage and defend itself against enemy heavily armored ground targets and infantry equally well. The Tigre HAD features versatile armaments and high speed at a relatively high price of 110 points. These were used in the French Army Light Aviation. Tiger HAD (Hélicoptère d'Appui Destruction) was a upgraded Tigre HAP with a stronger engine, better ballistic protection and the capability for ATGM. Today the armed forces of Germany, France, Spain and Australia use the Eurocopter Tiger. When Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm and Aérospatiale merged into the Eurocopter Group in 1992 the development started to gain momentum and in 2002 the first production Tiger was ready. The development of the Tiger did progress relatively slow between 19 due to financial problems and the question if a European gunship helicopter was even needed, although a first prototype was sent on it's maiden flight in 1991. The Eurocopter Tiger was first issued in 1984 by the French and Germans and was planned to be an anti-tank helicopter for usage against Warshaw Pact forces, but was redesigned to be a multirole gunship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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