The U.S. State Division has determined to approve a attainable Overseas Navy Sale (FMS) to the Authorities of Spain of MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopters with Assist and associated gear for an estimated value of $950 million. The proposed sale will enhance Spain’s functionality to satisfy present and future threats. The MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopter will present the potential to carry out anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions together with the power to carry out secondary missions together with vertical replenishment, search and rescue, and communications relay and can bolster the Spanish Navy’s capacity to assist NATO and stay interoperable with the U.S. and the NATO alliance. Spain could have no problem absorbing these helicopters into its armed forces. The U.S. State Division has authorised the attainable sale to the Authorities of Spain of eight (8) MH-60Rhelicopters; twenty (20) T-700-GE-401C engines (16 put in, 4 spares); thirty-two (32) AGM-114R(N) Hellfire missiles, all up rounds; two (2) Hellfire II Captive Air Coaching Missiles (CATM); 100 (100) WGU-59/B Superior Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II Steerage Sections, all up rounds; eight (8) Hyperlink 16 Multifunctional Info Distribution Methods Joint Tactical Radio Methods (MIDS JTRS) (8 put in); and 4 (4) Airborne Low-Frequency Sonars (ALFS) (4 put in on 4 plane). The principal contractor shall be Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Methods, Owego, NY. There are not any identified offset agreements proposed in reference to this potential sale.
Additionally included are M514 impulse cartridge/cartridge actuated units; MJ20 cartridge actuated thruster/cartridge actuated units; WB53 hearth extinguisher cartridge/cartridge actuated units; CCU-136A/A impulse cartridges; M299 Hellfire missile launchers; GAU-21 crew served weapons; LAU-61 digital rocket launchers; M152 Excessive Explosive warheads for airborne 2.75 rockets; MK66 MOD 4, 2.75-inch rocket motors; rocket motors, 2.75-inch, MK-66-4 inert; WTU-1B inert warheads (HA23); AN/ARC-210 RT-2036 radios with Communications Safety (COMSEC); AN/AAR-47 missile warning programs; AN/SSQ-62F sonobuoys; AN/SSQ-53G sonobuoys; AN/SSQ-36B sonobuoys; SRQ-4 Hawklink radio terminals with Hawklink Crypto Management Modules; AN/APX-123 Identification Buddy or Foe (IFF) transponders; AN/ALE- 47 dispenser, Digital Countermeasures; Superior Information Switch Methods (ADTS); AN/AAS-44C(V) Multi-Spectral Focusing on Methods; Identification Buddy or Foe Mode 4/5 Cryptographic Applique, KIV-78; Joint Mission Planning Methods (JMPS); Embedded International Positioning System/Exact Positioning Service (GPS/PPS)/Inertial Navigation Methods (EGI) with Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM); Airborne Low Frequency Sonars (ALFS) ; AN/ARQ-59 Hawklink radio terminals; Coaching Simulators/Operational Machine Interface Assistants (ATS/OMIA); tactical operational flight coach; AN/ALQ-210 Digital Assist Measures (ESM) programs; APS-153(V) multimode radars; spare engine containers; spare and restore components.
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Sikorsky MH-60 Seahawk (or Sea Hawk) is a twin turboshaft engine, multi-mission United States Navy helicopter based mostly on america Military UH-60 Black Hawk and a member of the Sikorsky S-70 household. Probably the most vital modifications are the folding foremost rotor and a hinged tail to scale back its footprint aboard ships. Capable of deploy aboard any air-capable frigate, destroyer, cruiser, quick fight assist ship, amphibious assault ship, littoral fight ship or plane provider, the Seahawk can deal with anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), naval particular warfare (NSW) insertion, search and rescue (SAR), fight search and rescue (CSAR), vertical replenishment (VERTREP), and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC). The MH-60R was initially generally known as “LAMPS Mark III Block II Improve” when growth started in 1993 with Lockheed Martin (previously IBM/Loral). The MH-60R is designed to mix the options of the SH-60B and SH-60F. Its avionics consists of twin controls and as an alternative of the advanced array of dials and gauges in Bravo and Foxtrot plane, 4 absolutely built-in 8″ x 10″ night time imaginative and prescient goggle-compatible and sunlight-readable colour multi-function shows, all a part of glass cockpit produced by Owego Helo Methods division of Lockheed Martin.
Onboard sensors embody: AN/AAR-47 Missile Strategy Warning System by ATK,Raytheon AN/AAS-44 electro-optical system that integrates FLIR and laser rangefinder, AN/ALE-39 decoy dispenser and AN/ALQ-144 infrared jammer by BAE Methods, AN/ALQ-210 digital assist measures system by Lockheed Martin,AN/APS-147 multi-mode radar/IFF interrogator, which throughout a mid-life expertise insertion venture is subsequently changed by AN/APS-153 Multi-Mode Radar with Automated Radar Periscope Detection and Discrimination (ARPDD) functionality, and each radars had been developed by Telephonics, a extra superior AN/AQS-22 superior airborne low-frequency sonar (ALFS) collectively developed by Raytheon & Thales, AN/ARC-210 voice radio by Rockwell Collins, a sophisticated airborne fleet information hyperlink AN/SRQ-4 Hawklink with radio terminal set AN/ARQ-59 radio terminal, each by L3Harris, and LN-100G dual-embedded international positioning system and inertial navigation system by Northrop Grumman Litton division. Starting in 2020, CAE’s MAD-XR has been fielded on MH-60Rs, offering it with a magnetic anomaly detector. Offensive capabilities are improved by the addition of recent Mk-54 air-launched torpedoes and Hellfire missiles. All Helicopter Anti-Submarine Gentle (HSL) squadrons that obtain the Romeo are redesignated Helicopter, Strike Maritime (HSM) squadrons.
