Navy Keeps Whole Multi-Year Order For Sikorsky Helicopters

The U.S. Army and Navy will follow through on a planned $1.3 billion contract to buy more than 100 helicopters from Sikorsky, a purchase that months ago was expected to be trimmed by more than two dozen aircraft.

The Army awarded the Stratford-based company a $771.9 million contract for 41 UH-60M Black Hawks helicopters and 24 HH-60M medical evacuation Pave Hawks helicopters. The Navy will buy 37 MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters for about $535 million.

The orders come as the next phase of an $8.4 billion multi-year contract the Pentagon signed with Sikorksy in 2012, though the numbers for this year were not always so solid.

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