CSAR - USAF

Det ser for meg ut til at tullet som førte til kanselleringen av prosjektet og ny oppstart, bare fortsetter. Det kan synes som om kriteriene er spesialdesignet for Sikorsky og deres Black Hawk. Dersom du er god i historie så husker du kanskje trusslene til GIL Tomas Colin Archer på Solakonferansen i 2004 hvor han sa at dersom vi ikke gikk for NH90, så måtte det kjøpes inn 4 ekstra SAR helikoptre for å dekke CSAR oppgaver. Tøff han! Og true kan han. Han la iallefall ikke skjul på at helikoptrene Norge skulle ha etter Sea King ville ha klare militære oppgaver. Les mer:

Sikorsky last bidder standing in USAF's combat rescue helicopter battle

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By:   DAVE MAJUMDAR WASHINGTON DC

06:18 12 Dec 2012 

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Sikorsky appears to be the only potential contractor willing to bid for
the US Air Force's combat rescue helicopter (CRH) programme.

"Sikorsky intends to continue with its proposal to offer the air force
a proven, affordable combat rescue helicopter system to perform
the critical mission of saving warfighters' lives," the company says.

The company is likely to bid a modified variant of its MH-60 Black
Hawk special operations aircraft for the USAF tender. It is already
building Black Hawks as part of the service's operational loss
replacement effort to shore up an existing fleet of HH-60G Pave
Hawks - a type that would be replaced by the CRH. For a time, the
USAF had considered placing a sole-source contract with Sikorsky,
before eventually bowing to pressure from rivals to hold a full
competition.

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However, every other potential contender for the USAF contract,
which is capped at $6.84 billion, has decided not to bid for the
programme. Many of the contractors dropped out because of the
evaluation criteria for the bids, says Dan Goure, an analyst at the
Lexington Institute, who notes that this "essentially makes this a
price shootout".