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Navy Sustainment Strategy-Aviation May Lay Out Mission Capable Rate Goals for Aircraft

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

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Navy Sustainment Strategy-Aviation May Lay Out Mission Capable Rate Goals for Aircraft

A CH-53K flies an aerial refueling test in September, 2020 from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD (Department of the Navy Photo)

A Department of the Navy Sustainment Strategy-Aviation effort, begun in 2018, may lay out mission capable (MC) rate goals for service aircraft, including the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Sikorsky CH-53K helicopter. This summer, Sikorsky said that it delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps the third Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and seventh CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter, which achieved initial operational capability in April (Defense Daily, July 15). Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, N.C., is the aircraft base.…

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