The Boeing Co., Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $212,629,000 cost-plus mounted charge and firm-fixed-price modification to an present supply order contract to acquire six MH47-G renew rotary wing plane and eight spare shipsets in help of U.S. Particular Operations Command. Fiscal 2021 procurement; and plane procurement, U.S. Military funds within the quantity of $212,629,000 are being obligated on the time of award. Nearly all of the work shall be carried out in Ridley Park. This supply order modification is a noncompetitive award and is in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302.1. U.S. Particular Operations Command, Tampa, Florida, is the contracting exercise.
The Boeing MH-47G is a particular operations variant of the CH-47 Chinook multi-role, heavy-lift helicopter. The helicopter is utilized in heavy-lift missions such because the transportation of troops, ammunition, autos, tools, gas and provides, in addition to civil and humanitarian aid missions. The MH-47G can conduct long-range missions at low stage, in hostile climate circumstances through the day and at evening. It’s in service with the US Military Particular Operations Aviation Command (USASOC). The primary new-build MH-47G helicopter was delivered to the USASOC in September 2014. The MH-47G modernisation programme is geared toward delivering a mixture of remanufactured and new MH-47Gs to the USASOC.
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The MH-47G incorporates a monolithic, machine-framed fuselage integrating long-range gas tanks, and an extendable refuelling probe to obtain gas mid-air from fixed-wing tankers. The helicopter additionally possesses superior cargo-handling capabilities. The fuselage of the MH-47G measures 15.9m-long and 4.8m-wide. The general size of the helicopter with unfolded rotors is 30.18m. It has a most gross weight of 24,494kg and might transport a helpful load of 11,340kg. The helicopter is powered by two Honeywell T55-GA-714A engines, which develop a most energy output of three,529kW every. The engines are geared up with infrared (IR) exhaust suppressors to cut back the IR visibility of the helicopter. The helicopter has the capability to hold 7,828l of gas. The facility plant gives a most velocity of 315km/h and long-range gas tanks guarantee a most mission radius of 630km.
The MH-47G variant incorporates a absolutely built-in digital cockpit administration system. The cockpit accommodates a pilot and a co-pilot in a side-by-side association. The evening imaginative and prescient goggle-compatible glass digital cockpit options 5 liquid crystal multi-function shows (MFDs) and two management show models (CDUs). The helicopter is armed with two M134 7.62mm electrically operated, air-cooled mini weapons and two M240 7.62mm belt-fed machine weapons mounted on both facet of the fuselage on the ahead and rear sections. The defensive aids aboard the rotorcraft embrace a typical missile warning system (CMWS), an built-in radio frequency countermeasures suite, a laser warning system and XM216 darkish flares.
