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USAF Lays Out Details of Possible HH-60W Upgrades

USAF Lays Out Details of Possible HH-60W Upgrades
Airmen with the 33rd Helicopter Maintenance Unit and 718th Aircraft Maintenance Unit handle a transported HH-60W Jolly Green II at Kadena Air Base, Japan on Jan. 26.. The HH-60W is designed for personnel recovery, combat search and rescue, humanitarian missions, disaster relief, medical evacuation, and non-combatant evacuations, the Air Force said (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio has laid out some details of possible upgrades to the HH-60W Jolly Green II personnel recovery/combat search and rescue helicopter (PR/CSAR) by Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Sikorsky. AFLCMC is conducting market research on such upgrades. Last September, the Air Force awarded Sikorsky an up to $650 million contract to develop and integrate Global Positioning System Anti-Jam, Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) systems on…

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