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DOT&E Recommends Re-evaluation of Combat Rescue Helicopter

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, January 31st, 2019

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DOT&E Recommends Re-evaluation of Combat Rescue Helicopter

US Air Force insignia on an aging jet plane.

The Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) has recommended that the Air Force program office re-evaluate the Sikorsky [LMT] HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter to determine whether it will be more survivable than the HH-60G Pave Hawk that CRH is to replace. Design changes are underway for the HH-60W tactical mission kit, Link 16, digital radar warning receiver, rescue hoist, gun mount and systems, armor, aircrew seating, and fuel cells, which have "not met self-sealing performance versus some threats,"…

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