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Army

Sikorsky Receives $525 Million Order For 40 UH-60M Black Hawks

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

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Sikorsky Receives $525 Million Order For 40 UH-60M Black Hawks

UH-60M Photo: Sikorsky

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky has received a $525 million order from the Army for 40 UH-60M aircraft, to include two for a foreign military sale customer. The deal, announced on Tuesday evening, was placed as a Lot 44 production option under the Army’s Multi-Year IX Black Hawk contract with Sikorsky. While the latest contract doesn’t name the FMS customer, the State Department did approve a $115 million deal with Croatia last October for two multi-mission variant Black Hawks (Defense Daily,…

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