Quote:
"I think that engine/airframe combination first flew in 1986, six years before they even ordered the RTM for the EH-101."
Another quote:
"In the combat search and rescue role the MH-60S will replace the current HH-60H starting in 2007."
http://www.andersen.af.mil/library/f...ID=7112&page=1
So there must presumably be development life left in the Blackhawk design. Likewise, the AAC is still expanding the operational envelope for the WAH-64 / RTM322 seven years on from the first UK delivery.
To my simple mind a stop-gap UOR of second-hand UH-60's 'as-is', with the carrot of a re-engining contract to RTM322 when funds allow, would provide a better solution in AFG than AAC can currently offer or that FLynx will ever deliver.