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US army orders $656mln worth of black hawk combat helicopters – Pentagon

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Washington: Sikorsky has won a more than $650 million US Army contract to build an unspecified additional number of UH-60M Black Hawk ground support helicopters, the Defense Department announced.

“Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $656,774,666 modification … contract for UH-60M aircraft,” the Defense Department said in a press release on Thursday.

Work on the contract will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut, over the next four-and-a-half years with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2027, the release added.

The UH-60M version operated by the US military for conducting special operations is MH-60M, according to the release.

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