The "US"-101 will always have rotor heads, rotor blades, transmissions and critical components made in Yoevil and Milan, regardless of the funny math that comes out of Lockheed lawyers.
If the rotor blade is made in Italy, can the Italian worker be assured to have "unquestionable loyalty to the United States"? Same for those who cut the gears in the transmissions.
It is my understanding that the US Navy has for the last few years purchased high value dynamic SH3 components from Agusta since Sikorsky was no longer producing them. I can only assume that some of these parts ended up on the Presidential VH-3D.
Another point to consider is that many of the high value dynamic components have catastrophic failure modes that were never considered in the Merlin / Cormorant applications. If these parts are not redesigned by Lockheed or Bell they could very well end up on the US 101.
