Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky said it recently finished testing on the integrated mission systems and sensors on three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters for Greece’s Hellenic Navy.
The company said this testing verified each helicopter “is an efficient and effective air weapon system capable of performing anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare missions from land or naval ship.”
The work wrapped up in December, the company said.
The first three MH-60Rs are due to arrive in Greece this year aboard U.S. Navy transport planes, with the remaining four helicopters of the seven aircraft purchased set to arrive in 2025.
Sikorsky President Paul Lemmo said the commonality between these Hellenic Navy helicopters alongside the global 330 MH-60R and 250 MH-60S Seahawk fleets “enables Sikorsky and the U.S. Navy to continue sustaining and upgrading this proven weapon system for maximum threat deterrence and operational capability.”
These new MH-60Rs will join the 11 older S-70B Seahawk helicopters, dubbed Aegean Hawks, at Greece’s Kotroni Naval Air Station. Greece acquired the older rotorcraft between 1994 and 2005.
Greece is the seventh country getting the MH-60R helicopter. The company noted Denmark now operates nine of them, while Spain and Norway placed orders in 2023 for 14 total MH-60Rs.
In 2019, the U.S. State Department first approved Greece buying these seven Seahawk in a $600 million foreign military sale (Defense Daily, July 12, 2019).
As of October, Sikorsky said it had 64 MH-60Rs on order internationally, including this Greek order (Defense Daily, Oct. 27, 2023).