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Marine Corps delays 1st deployment of new heavy-lift helicopter to 2026
« on: April 09, 2024, 04:01:02 pm »
 

Marine Corps delays 1st deployment of new heavy-lift helicopter to 2026
 Apr 9, 02:23 PM
 
Sikorsky has delivered 14 King Stallions to the Marine Corps and has 79 total on contract. (D.S. Resch)
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Marine Corps plans to deploy its powerful new heavy-lift helicopter for the first time in 2026 — the year after it previously had anticipated.

The CH-53K King Stallion will get deployed from the East Coast sometime in 2026 with a Marine expeditionary unit, said Col. Kate Fleeger, the helicopter’s program manager, on Tuesday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland.


At the same conference in 2023, Fleeger said the Corps planned to deploy the King Stallion with a Marine expeditionary unit in 2025.

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/04/09/marine-corps-delays-1st-deployment-of-new-heavy-lift-helicopter-to-2026/
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Re: Marine Corps delays 1st deployment of new heavy-lift helicopter to 2026
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2024, 04:02:13 pm »
Good God Almighty!  Another major equipment delay in the military? :whistle:
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