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Denmark Plans To Buy MH-60Rs For Anti-Sub, Anti-Surface Warfare

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, December 7th, 2012

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The U.S. Navy announced yesterday that Denmark intends to buy nine MH-60R Seahawk helicopters designed for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. Denmark will acquire the MH-60R Romeo variants of the aircraft through the foreign military sales program for a cost of $686 million, the Navy said. Australia last year became the first country to buy Romeos. Sikorsky, a division of United Technologies [UTX], builds the airframe while Lockheed Martin [LMT] is the systems integrator. The MH-60Rs are intended to replace Denmark’s…

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