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Experts Believe Air Force Will Field Combat Rescue Helicopter

Experts Believe Air Force Will Field Combat Rescue Helicopter
Artist's rendering of the Air Force's Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH). Photo: Sikorsky.

The Air Force has a messy history with fielding new rotary wing aircraft, but a pair of experts believes the service will get it right this time with its Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) as the Air Force can’t further delay delivering a search and rescue replacement.CRH is a replacement for Sikorsky’s [LMT] HH-60G Pave Hawk that has been in service since 1982. The HH-60G’s primary mission is to conduct day or night personnel recovery operations into hostile environments to recover…

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