Vivienne Machi, National Defense M.
The Air Force's effort to field a new combat rescue helicopter in the 2020s is moving forward on time, a change from years of false starts and schedule delays that have held up a replacement for the current HH-60G Pave Hawk for nearly a decade.The service in 2014 awarded the engineering and manufacturing development phase contract to Sikorsky which is now under Lockheed Martin to develop a Black Hawk derivative aircraft known as the HH-60W. The contract includes nine aircraft and related training and maintenance systems for a total value of nearly $1.6 billion. The Air Force has... Read More
The Air Force's effort to field a new combat rescue helicopter in the 2020s is moving forward on time, a change from years of false starts and schedule delays that have held up a replacement for the current HH-60G Pave Hawk for nearly a decade.The service in 2014 awarded the engineering and manufacturing development phase contract to Sikorsky which is now under Lockheed Martin to develop a Black Hawk derivative aircraft known as the HH-60W. The contract includes nine aircraft and related training and maintenance systems for a total value of nearly $1.6 billion. The Air Force has... Read More