Eurocopter EC665 Tiger UHT/KHT

West Germany joined the programme seeking a second-generation anti-tank helicopter, the PAH-2 (Panzerabwehrhubschrauber der 2. Generation), of which it planned 212 with deliveries from the end of 1992. The end of the Cold War changed the requirement and the PAH-2 was cancelled in 1993 in favour of a multi-role support version with limited anti-tank capability: the UHT (Unterstützungshubschrauber Tiger), previously called UHU. Its hallmark is the SFIM/Sagem Osiris mast-mounted sight above the main rotor, with second-generation infrared and CCD television cameras, a laser rangefinder and an 18 km observation range, allowing the crew to watch and designate from behind cover at the cost of some 25 km/h of top speed. Under the nose sits a FLIR with a 40° × 30° field of view. Unlike the HAP and HCP, the UHT has no integrated gun turret; instead it can carry 12.7 mm gun pods on the stub wings. The weapon fit was designed to be interchangeable: fire-and-forget PARS 3 LR anti-tank missiles — four per inner station, with a range of up to seven kilometres according to the Bundeswehr — or HOT 3, 70 mm Hydra/FZ rockets from Belgium's Forges de Zeebrugge, and four FIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missiles, two per side.

PT5 (serial 9825) was the UHT prototype with full avionics and the Osiris sight; it flew on 21 February 1996 and was used to test the German weapons (Stinger, HOT 2 and the 12.7 mm pod). Rebuilt as PT5R with the production-standard weapon system, it flew again on 8 October 1999. PT3 was retrofitted with UHT systems from February 1997. The first production Tiger of the whole programme was in fact a UHT, S01 (9826), rolled out on 22 March 2002 and flown on 2 August 2002. The first UHT was delivered to Germany in April 2005; the first five went to the Franco-German school at Le Luc (Le Cannet-des-Maures). In June 2006 Germany signed the production contract for the PARS 3 LR, of which 680 missiles had been delivered by 2014.

Final qualification of the UHT came in December 2008 together with the HAP, but in August 2009 Der Spiegel reported that the ten operational Tigers of the German Army were only fit for pilot training and that others had not been accepted because of defects. At the end of 2009 only four of the planned 32 were with Attack Helicopter Regiment 36 Kurhessen at Fritzlar. In March 2013 the German government and Eurocopter agreed to cut the in-service fleet to 51 aircraft, and in October 2013 the Army officially adopted the designation Kampfhubschrauber Tiger (KHT). By mid-February 2013, 27 machines had been delivered in Step 1, Step 2 and Step 2 KRYPTO configurations; by December 2015 there were 43, of which only 23 were with the troops and six fully operational; by March 2016, 48, with twelve being phased out under the ceiling of 40 combat helicopters. Airbus Helicopters Deutschland handed the last of the 68 KHT to the BAAINBw in July 2018, thirteen years after the first.

For Afghanistan the ASGARD-F standard (Afghanistan Stabilization German Army Rapid Deployment-Full) was defined, with added ballistic protection and encrypted radios and datalinks: twelve aircraft were converted, the last delivered to KHR 36 on 6 March 2014, and a further 33 are to be brought to this common configuration. The first two UHTs arrived at Mazar-i-Sharif airport on 13 December 2012, followed days later by two more, flying reconnaissance, ground support and convoy escort. In January 2017 the Bundeswehr deployed four KHTs to Gao in Mali under the UN MINUSMA mission. KHR 36 at Fritzlar is the only operational unit: it operates 51 Tigers, the remaining airframes serving as a source of spares.

The UHT Mk III, with 53 aircraft proposed, was cancelled: Germany preferred 82 light attack helicopters under the LKH (Leichter Kampfhubschrauber) label, realised as more H145Ms, and only France and Spain remain in the Mk III. The Army plans to retire the Tiger in 2032.