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===Exports=== During the late 1990s, the United States decided to offer the surplus U.S. Navy SH-2Fs as [[foreign aid]] to a number of overseas countries. Among those to be offered the type included [[Greece]], which had been offered six, and [[Turkey]], which had been offered 14, but they rejected the offer.<ref name=assistance>{{cite web |title=Greece and Turkey: U.S Assistance Programs and Other Activities |url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-100/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-100.htm}}</ref><ref name="age">{{cite web |title=Canberra bought unwanted helicopters|date=28 April 2004 |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831569421.html}}</ref> Egypt opted to acquire four SH-2F under this aid program, they were mainly used for spares in to support of their existing fleet of ten SH-2Gs.<ref name="age" /> In the early 2000s, Australia acquired the SH-2G model, with ten delivered by 2007,<ref name="Australian Feb 10-11 2005">{{cite news |last=Walters |first=Patrick |date=2007-02-10 |title=Seasprite headed for the junk pile |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21201454-601,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212052756/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0%2C20867%2C21201454-601%2C00.html |archive-date=2007-02-12 |access-date=2007-02-11 |work=[[The Australian]] |publisher=[[News Corporation (1980β2013)|News Corporation]] |pages=1β2}}</ref> 11 had been ordered in the late 1990s, but they only served from 2003 to 2008; the RAN consolidated on using the SH-60 Seahawk and was launching the MRH-90 Taipan program at the time. Poland chose to acquire the later SH-2G variant.<ref name="age" /> Peru acquired Ex-RNZAF SH-2Gs and they entered service in the late 2010s.<ref name="Peru signs2">{{cite news |last1=Tantalean |first1=Cesar Cruz |date=9 October 2014 |title=Peru signs for SH-2G Super Seasprites |url=http://www.janes.com/article/44361/peru-signs-for-sh-2g-super-seasprites |access-date=12 October 2014 |work=IHS Jane's 360}}</ref>
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