MH-53K Updates?

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Originally Posted by Ian Corrigible

The GAO's most recent Assessment of Selected Weapon Programs states that the $115M unit price is now $131M (as of August 2016), with Bloomberg reporting last May that the latest CAPE cost assessment had hit $138M/aircraft.

I/C

So the old argument from the past decade that the Osprey was overpriced and should have been scrapped in favor of an equivalent buy of 53Ks now seems like a real rib tickler.

I don't think even the most fervent V22 supporters imagined that the 53K unit price would end up DOUBLING the Osprey.