Originally Posted by mr fish
i heard a while back that the us coastguard wanted rid of their dauphins as they were 'underpowered', are the ones mentioned uprated?
The USCG has retrofitted its entire fleet with new donks (Arriel 2C2): +30% power over the old HH-65A, and +13% over the vanilla AS365N3. Enough of an improvement that the service is now using the platform for armed use of force ops in the Caribbean and the D.C. region (160+ kts even
with a .50Cal sticking out of the cabin
).
I/C