Germany to send WS-61 Westland Sea King helicopters to Ukraine
Germany has committed to sending Ukraine six of its 21 retiring WS-61 Westland Sea King multirole, amphibious helicopters.
The prospect of Textron reducing V-280 Valor funding is one certain to happen should the US president's forthcoming budget submission not offer the programme, or its associated FVL initiative, significant increased investment.
Despite success of the Bell manufactured tiltrotor recently reaching flight test speeds of 280kt and the company openly suggesting it is ready to move to a manufacturing phase, the US Army is yet to signal when a switch beyond the current technology maturation phase will begin.
'At this stage we will have no choice but to roll back any funding we put into it [the V-280 programme]
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Germany has committed to sending Ukraine six of its 21 retiring WS-61 Westland Sea King multirole, amphibious helicopters.
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