The US Department of Defense and the company Sikorsky have signed a contract for the production of 257 combat and evacuation helicopters

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In the coming years, the American army will be replenished with hundreds of new Black Hawk helicopters. The US Department of Defense and Sikorsky (part of Lockheed Martin Corporation) have signed a five-year production contract for the US Army 257 combat and evacuation helicopters with a total value of $ 3,8 billion, reports "Warspot" with reference to the portal airrecognition.com

According to the contract, the delivery of helicopters will begin this fall and will last until 2022. The contract includes the delivery of XHUMXM Black Hawk UH-257M helicopters and HH-60M MEDEVAC helicopters (in the latest versions), while it indicates the possibility of increasing the order to 60 units with an increase in the total cost to $ 360 billion.

The US Department of Defense and the company Sikorsky have signed a contract for the production of 257 combat and evacuation helicopters

Helicopters UH-60M Black Hawk and HH-60M MEDEVAC


The US Department of Defense indicates that the new helicopters are designed for the needs of the American army, as well as the transfer to the allies. Combining domestic and export orders, the military department manages to significantly reduce the cost of helicopters by increasing production volumes.

Helicopter Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk entered service with the American army in the 1979 year, replacing Bell UH-1. It is known that today in service with the American army is about 2500 UH-60 helicopters in various versions, in addition, Black Hawk is exported and manufactured under license in other countries. The helicopter can accommodate up to 14 people (including three crew members), can carry small arms, missile and bomb weapons, as well as reconnaissance modules.
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  1. +3
    3 July 2017 18: 42
    Fifty turntables a year ... well, so-so pace. Especially for the USA. And it seems I know where the written-off turntables will go - the sky of Ukraine is waiting for them ...
    1. +3
      3 July 2017 18: 45
      Quote: svp67
      Fifty turntables a year ... well, so-so pace. Especially for the USA.

      And we have MI-8 of the last modification, how much is produced per year for the army? M ... should they hurry if mattresses already have the largest helicopter fleet in the world? Should I salt them?
      1. +2
        3 July 2017 18: 48
        Quote: NEXUS
        and so the largest helicopter fleet in the world

        So they do not increase it, but they are going to update it. 257 out of 2500, that's just a tenth.
    2. 0
      3 July 2017 18: 47
      But our Sikorsky is from Russia! That's how brains were pumped out of the country, although of course they themselves are to blame .. hi
      1. +2
        3 July 2017 18: 49
        Quote: DEPARTMENT
        But our Sikorsky is from Russia! That's how brains were pumped out of the country, although of course they themselves are to blame .. hi

        Now representatives of the “independent” will appear and will quickly explain that he is UKRAINIAN, since he is from Kiev
        1. +2
          3 July 2017 20: 40
          Quote: svp67
          Quote: DEPARTMENT
          But our Sikorsky is from Russia! That's how brains were pumped out of the country, although of course they themselves are to blame .. hi

          Now representatives of the “independent” will appear and will quickly explain that he is UKRAINIAN, since he is from Kiev

          I don’t want sracha. But partly true. By the way, Sikorsky (son) came to Kuchma in Ukraine, offered joint production. Kuzmuk and Co. made every effort to prevent this from happening.
          1. 0
            3 July 2017 21: 18
            Quote: Normal ok
            Quote: svp67
            Quote: DEPARTMENT
            But our Sikorsky is from Russia! That's how brains were pumped out of the country, although of course they themselves are to blame .. hi

            Now representatives of the “independent” will appear and will quickly explain that he is UKRAINIAN, since he is from Kiev

            I don’t want sracha. But partly true. By the way, Sikorsky (son) came to Kuchma in Ukraine, offered joint production. Kuzmuk and Co. made every effort to prevent this from happening.

            I understood everything, I’m silent .. and still sorry!
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        1. 0
          4 July 2017 02: 25
          And I can tell you another version. Sikorsky would have remained in the country, and after a few years he was sent to the camp / to the wall as an enemy of the people, a Western spy and an enemy of the revolution.
          Of course you can blame lies, slander "good and decent", but then why did the same Korolev be sent to rot in the camp? Why did the peasants, who achieved success by their own labor, be recognized with their fists and evicted to Siberia to uninhabited places, why were their children “enemies of the people,” and this stigma remained with them for many years? Why was Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov killed? Was he not a patriot?
          Why were many writers, scientists, cultural figures shot? For this, not traitors, yeah. And many other examples. Oh yes, many wanted to come back, someone even came back and you know what? They were rotted in camps or shot - in particular, former White Guards who decided to return to their homeland, even knowing that they might die.

          And is it possible to accuse him of having escaped from a war-ridden country, where there was a very considerable probability that he would be shot on trumped-up charges?

          Does the “Uriah” of the patriot have something to parry? I think no .
          1. +3
            4 July 2017 03: 28
            Quote: Black5Raven
            Of course you can blame lies, slander "good and decent", but then why did the same Korolev be sent to rot in the camp?
            For the banal misuse of public money
            1. 0
              4 July 2017 15: 54
              "On September 25, 1938, Korolev was included in the list of persons subject to trial by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He went on the first (firing) category in the list." For embezzlement, yeah. Vavilov too? Dozens of other scientists and designers also sent to prison for "embezzlement" and distrust of the party or shot?

              And what then may be the questions of why the very Sikorsky fled the country and who is to blame.
              1. +2
                4 July 2017 16: 10
                Quote: Black5Raven
                And what then may be the questions of why the very Sikorsky fled the country and who is to blame.
                Each one chooses his own destiny. Polikarpov, Grigorovich, Tupolev decided and stayed. Sikorsky decided differently.
        2. +1
          4 July 2017 10: 52
          Quote: wku
          if the traitor of the Motherland is talented, he remains a traitor!

          An interesting opus you gave .....
          What do you think is worse when a person by training a nuclear physicist goes to wash toilets in the USA or simply washes them at home?
          The man wanted to build helicopters, we didn’t need them, he went where he needed .... and did the right thing.
    3. +1
      3 July 2017 19: 15
      Quote: svp67
      And it seems I know where the written-off turntables will go - the sky of Ukraine is waiting for them ...

      Ukraine? Don’t tell me. Ukraine is full of henchmen with a rank higher, such as Poland, the Baltic countries, Romania, Bulgaria. MI-8 of the Bulgarian Air Force is more likely to reach Ukraine.
    4. 0
      3 July 2017 21: 16
      ISIS to export to Ukraine laughing
  2. +1
    3 July 2017 18: 42
    Looks like convertiplanes did not particularly like the military. Good old single-rotor helicopter continues to be popular. And the convertiplane’s PR was no less than now any railguns, microwave guns, lasers, and so on.
    1. +1
      3 July 2017 22: 15
      Osprey's hitchhikers are purchasing the Marine Corps. They produced about 200 pieces.
      They have more people landing, much more combat radius, refueling in the air,
      much higher speed. Another class.
  3. 0
    3 July 2017 18: 43
    To update the park, such a quantity is not enough. But the amount of the contract is impressive.
    1. +1
      3 July 2017 18: 48
      Why are you so impressed? about $ 14 million overboard is obtained
  4. 0
    3 July 2017 19: 06
    Mdya .... Such a contract for "Russian Helicopters" would .... And RosArmii would ......
    The military-industrial complex should be nationalized yesterday.
    We are not the United States, we do not have the resources of the whole world. Therefore, the path is different.
    1. +1
      3 July 2017 19: 21
      Do you know how many helicopters we produce per year?
      1. 0
        3 July 2017 20: 43
        Quote: Muvka
        Do you know how many helicopters we produce per year?

        Russian Armed Forces are moving to the point of purchase of helicopters in connection with the saturation of the park
        (BO dated May 17, 2017)
        The park is saturated.
        By the way. The global market is stagnating.
  5. 0
    3 July 2017 19: 07
    Bell UX-one, now here is the 60th. Again lost 59? Then 36 tomahawks, then their helicopters will get lost. "Up to 14 people", yes ... the stock is available, ride harley. the black hawks got divorced here, you know. I read how, in Afghanistan, the “eight” at twilight forty people from the gorge pulled under fire, this is Technique.
    1. ZVO
      +4
      3 July 2017 19: 41
      Quote: iliitch
      Bell UX-one, now here is the 60th. Again lost 59? Then 36 tomahawks, then their helicopters will get lost. "Up to 14 people", yes ... the stock is available, ride harley. the black hawks got divorced here, you know. I read how, in Afghanistan, the “eight” at twilight forty people from the gorge pulled under fire, this is Technique.

      No need to write while under substances. Human logic does not understand your connection chains between the Bell model and the Sikorsky model. With "losses" in your head 59 units and some sort of tomahawks ...
  6. 0
    3 July 2017 20: 41
    Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, - a workhorse for staff. They use helicopters, almost same as our armored personnel carrier.
  7. +1
    3 July 2017 22: 48
    And the couple Natanyahu landed today on the aircraft carrier "George W. Bush" on it. Well, stuffed, of course, with all sorts of Israeli gizmos. Even standby for 58 sec. thoroughly...

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