The EC665 Tigre is an helicopter build by Airbus, it's a European project started by France and Germany, Spain joined in 2004 and Australia bought its collaboration in 2009.
The project for a multirole helicopter which can operated on the battlefield was created in 1984 and it's to Aérospatiale and to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm that the project was given. But because of a too higher price, the project is abandoned in 1986 but the project was took up again the following year and, in 1989, Eurocopter received the contract for build 5 prototypes.
The 27 April 1991, the first prototype did its first fly. When Aérospatiale and MBB fused in 1992 for created the Eurocopter group, the project of the Tiger was integrated to it. It's only in 2001 that the project was placed under the control of the EU.

It entered in service in the French and the German Armies in 2005, after the creation of the École Franco-Allemand de formation des équipages Tigre (Franco-German School of formation of the Tiger crews) which train the crews from France, Germany and Spain.
Germany has 57 of them, 74 for France, 24 for Spain and 24 for Australia.