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| Air Force awards $2.4B contract for new helicopters to guard nukes |
| 2018-09-26 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Kinda pricey at $28.3M each. The support package better last into the next century. UH-60M/S-70 is about $12M each to the Army and 50% more powerful, not to mention more damage resistant. Maybe the Italians are pricing in leather pilots' seats. |
| Posted by: Snakes Peacock6563 2018-09-26 09:43 |
| #2 I look for the contract to be a consolidation prize to Boeing in compensation for big LM numbers. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-09-26 09:20 |
| #1 ...Yeah, THAT was only about 15 years overdue. And expect the Usual Suspects to throw a hissy and drag this out another couple years while the birds deteriorate even further. If SAC were still around we'd have had them in service PDQ. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-09-26 05:14 |