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Pentagon planners are looking to replace Sikorsky's Black Hawk, middle-aged and slower than the next generation of helicopters [Hartford Courant]
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Pentagon planners are looking to replace Sikorsky’s Black Hawk, middle-aged and slower than the next generation of helicopters [Hartford Courant] The Black Hawk, the workhorse in wartime and in natural disasters, is facing a challenge familiar to those in middle age as a new and faster helicopter swoops in to take its place. Its manufacturer, Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., is working with Boeing to develop a utility helicopter that flies at double the speed and twice as far as the Black Hawk. In a competition for a Pentagon contract, they ar...
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