Army Helicopters Underfunded (Even Worse Than Everything Else): CSIS
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 04, 2019 at 7:55 PM
Every Breaking Defense reader has a good idea how huge the US military’s modernization backlog is. But it sometimes takes a deep dive to show how big the problem is. In a new study by the Center for Strategic & International Studies — embedded below — scholars Gabriel Coll, Andrew Hunter, and Robert Karlen look at a decade of increasing underinvestment in helicopters, a 40 percent drop in funding from 2009 to 2018. Today, with the notable exception of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, most of the fleet consists of upgrades to aircraft that entered service in 1980s.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/02/army-helicopters-underfunded-even-worse-than-everything-else-csis/
