The UH-72 Lakota is the Army’s third largest fleet. Larger than the Chinook fleet and 75 percent the size of the Apache fleet, here’s how commercial practices make a difference in sustaining the fleet and enabling Army readiness.
By Breaking DefenseWith legislators demanding open competition for new helicopters to carry security teams to far-flung missile silos in an emergency, the Air Force has bowed to congressional pressure. Sikorsky had been hopeful of a $1.4 billion sole-source deal to replace the aging UH-1N helicopters, whose poor performance in counterterrorism drills had the Air Force saying it needed to bypass…
By Colin ClarkWhat could justify the Air Force awarding a sole source contract for helicopters worth close to a billion – that’s a thousand millions – dollars? Pick an answer: A classified joint service military exercise called Mighty Guardian in which some of the 62 aging UH-1N Huey helicopters failed their assignment to carry security forces to…
By Richard Whittle