
Following two years of litigation that concluded and then produced a fresh lawsuit last week, UH-72 Lakota manufacturer Airbus is accusing Leonardo DRS of using the courts to hold contracts hostage in a scheme to shutter its production line and strong-arm the Army into recompeting the program."I’ve never done a press call like this before,” Airbus Helicopters President Chris Emerson said Jan. 30 in a call with reporters in which he condemned Leonardo’s litigiousness as a fundamental threat to Army…