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GAO Recommends Navy Limit CH-53K Buys Until Testing Is Finished

Thursday, March 11th, 2021

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GAO Recommends Navy Limit CH-53K Buys Until Testing Is Finished

A CH-53K King Stallion receives fuel from a C-130 tanker while carrying a 27,000 lb. load in September 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report this month recommended the Navy should not buy more than six new CH-53K King Stallion helicopters per year until the initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) period is finished. The CH-53K, being built by Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky [LMT], is meant to replace the CH-53E model to provide combat assault transport of heavy weapons, equipment. And supplies from sea to support Marine Corps operations ashore. The 53K is designed to take up the same amount…

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