Blackhawks work on fire's .......full stop.
CALFire have spent $300M on a dozen new build machines..... why?..... they work.
Payload/Range/Work rate/Cost per drop/availability of air and ground crew.......they work. Even at $25M each new, the CA Govt realizes that the Capex was required to deliver a product that worked.
More to the Oz perspective, "I would have thought that the............." insert here !
................Could whom ever announced this years ago done their homework
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