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Plotting the CH-53D demise: Cost-cutting or not?

by Craig Hooper on August 14, 2010

America’s 40-year old CH-53Ds still do good work–a set of 4 CH-53Ds just returned from a 6 month deployment in Africa. Israel’s CH-53D variants self-deployed from Israel to Romania to, oh, prep for an audacious bit of raiding many thousands of miles from home. So they’re still operationally relevant. But it was a sad to […]

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USMC Heavy Lift: What's with the CH-53K?

by Craig Hooper on April 27, 2010

Earlier this month, the U.S. Marine Corps announced their much-needed CH-53K was going to experience a three year delay before reaching the field…but they didn’t really say way, exactly.  But all reasons aside, Aerospace Daily and Defense Report’s Bettina H. Chavanne reported on April 1 that the delay was “no surprise.”  (direct link not available; […]

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