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Old 8th May 2014, 17:34
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The VXX S-92 will almost certainly have an ALS fitted.

But I am sure now we will likely see the completion of the long awaited, much ballyhooed in 2008, yet currently conspicuously missing Improved-Durability MGB for the S-92.

Its almost like Sikorsky intended to use the funding from the initial VXX competition back in 2004 to help fund the requisite MHP upgrades (or perhaps vice versa).

But now 10 years later, this award just may help ballast the steaming pile of repeated failures that is the CH-148 and get the guys in Fort Worth to finish off the new box for use in both programs.

None of this really solves the S-92's desperate need for a 5th blade, which was on the drawing board from all the way back on VXX's first time around.
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