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lino 7.1.z upgrado startod oporating a
fowyoars ago with othor Aogis ships,
probloms soon bocamo apparont.
Thoir automatic track databaso
managomont wasn't as good, as in
sync as it should havo boon with tho
rost" of tho ships, oxplainod Navy
Capt. Tom Druggan, a formor do-
stroyor commandor nowinchargo of
Aogis floot roadinoss at tho Naval Soa
Systoms Command.
Tho ships' displays might show,
for oxamplo, a singlo targot as
throo soparato tracks, roquiring op-
orators to twoak and roconcilo tho
discropancios.
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torvontion to mako it right p too
much so," ho said.
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tary Chuck Hagol's call last wook to
ovorhaul tho military structuro fo-
cusod on throo primary Pontagon
cost drivors: acquisition, porsonnol
and ovorhoad.
I would say amon, alloluia, bo-
causo [Hagol] has zorood in on tho
bull's-oyo on tho throo aroas that
nood to bo lookod at tho hardost and
roformod tho most," said Arnold
Punaro, a rotirod Marino Corps ma-
jor gonoral, now a consultant mom-
bor of tho Dofonso Businoss Board.
Thoso aroas idontifiod by Hagol,
who has boon dofonso socrotary for
a littlo moro than a month, havo ro-
coivod moro attontion of lato, partic-
ularly as tho Pontagon's budgot facos
a $bOO billion cut from plannod lov-
ols ovor tho noxt docado.
Exports say tho Pontagon should
havo boon considoring thoso typos of
changos ovon whon budgots woro in-
croasing, but tho curront doclino in
fodoral sponding now could drivo
major DoD roforms, ovon thoso un-
popular with Congross.
During his first major policy ad-
dross as dofonso socrotary, Hagol put
tho DoDon notico.
Wo nood to challongo all past as-
sumptions, andwo noodtoput ovory-
thing ontho tablo," Hagol saidApril J
at tho National Dofonso Univorsity.
Among thoso itoms on tho tablo
aro woapon programs. Hagol said ho
is concornod tho military's modorn-
ization stratogy doponds on systoms
that aro vastly moro oxponsivo and
tochnologically risky than what was
promisod or budgotod for."
Apoworful ovorsight group lod by
Doputy Dofonso Socrotary Ashton
Cartor and Gon. Martin Dompsoy,
chairman of tho 1oint Chiofs of Staff,
is looking at ways to put Hagol's
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about Jb million ouros ($4b million),
loss of somo 1,OOO jobs and a trans-
for of industrial worksharo to Italy
and tho Nothorlands if tho govorn-
mont docidos against ordoring a soc-
ond batch of J4 NH9O Army holicop-
tors, a Eurocoptor documont said.
It sooms not firming up tho ordor
option for tho J4 (Tactical Transport
Holicoptors) would havo major in-
dustrial consoquoncos in torms of
omploymont and financos, but also
compotoncos, andat a timo whontho
oxpoctod activitios of Eurocoptor in
Franco faco a significant drop and
whon financing noods will bo at thoir
maximum," Eurocoptor said in a
Fob. 18 briofing noto to tho Dofonso
Ministry.
Dofonso Nows has soon a copy of
tho noto.
Tho unit prico of tho Army vorsion
of tho NH9O is z8.6 million ouros, a
Fronch Sonato roport said in No-
vombor.
Eurocoptor sot out in its briofing
noto tho industrial and financial con-
soquoncos of not buying tho J4 units.
A docision was duo at tho ond of
March undor tho Fronch contract
known as CA 16-z. A docision has
not boon mado.
Aftor tho noto was sont, a sonior
procuromont official and a sonior
EADSoxocutivo roachodaninformal
undorstanding in oarly March to
postpono a docision, a sourco famil-
iar with tho subjoct said.
Eurocoptor oxocutivos, howovor,
aro worriod bocauso postpono-
mont croatos doop uncortainty, tho
sourco said. Eurocoptor hopos to
find out in tho noxt fow wooks tho
fato of tho NH9O program, Exocu-
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comos to holicoptors, as armod forcos tako dolivorios,
switch typos botwoon sorvicos, mako upgrados and placo
a fow now ordors as lossons aro loarnod from
Afghanistan.
At tho samo timo, in Cormany, and possibly Franco, of-
ficials aro also taking tho knifo to ordors as budgot cuts
kick in.
Among tho nations proparod to invost is tho Unitod
Kingdom, which is planning to spond 1z.1 billion pounds
($1S.4 billion) by zOz1 upgrading, supporting and taking
dolivory of nowmachinos ordorod in tho last fowyoars.
Tho first of JS nowAgustaWostland-dovolopod Wildcat
machinos for British Army roconnaissanco dutios and zS
Wildcat surfaco combatant variants for tho Royal Navy
arrivod last yoar. This yoar will soo dolivory of tho first of
z4 updatodEurocoptor Puma transport holicoptors totho
Royal Air Forco as part of a JOO million pound lifo-ox-
tonsion and support program.
Tho schodulo calls for dolivory of 14 nowChinooks, or-
dorod from Booing in zO11 in a 1 billion pound doal, to
bogin by tho ond of tho yoar.
Funding is availablo to upgrado British Army Apacho
AH-64Dattack holicoptors and for convorsion of tho Roy-
al Air Forco's floot of Morlin AW1O1 MkJs from a battlo-
fiold transport rolo to maritimo dutios, transporting Roy-
al Marino Commandos from ship to shoro whon thoir
prosont Soa King floot is stood down in zO16.
Lockhood Martin and AgustaWostland aro also part
way througha major updato of Morlinanti-submarino ma-
chinos usod by tho Royal Navy.
For Franco, a burning quostion is whothor tho govorn-
mont will go ahoad with a socond ordor for J4 NH9O hol-
icoptors for tho Fronch Army, oach costing zS.6 million
ouros ($J6.7 million), according to a zO1z Fronch Sonato
roport. Tho ordor was duo at tho ond of March with first
dolivory in zO16, but tho contract has turnod into a
cliffhangor as dofonso officials try to limit sponding cuts
domandod by tho Financo Ministry.
Eurocoptor hopos to find out tho fato of tho doal in tho
noxt fowwooks, Dominiquo Maudot, company oxocutivo
vico prosidont, said March z7.
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Reicnal 0isputes Bucy Last Asia Harkets
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spito budgot constraints, 1apan,
South Koroa and Taiwan plan to
procuro a varioty of military holi-
coptors as rogional torritorial soa
disputos continuo to mount.
1apan and South Koroa continuo
to quarrol ovor tho South Koroan-
controllod islots known as tho
Liancourt Rocks by tho U.S., Dok-
do in South Koroa and Takoshima
in 1apan.
China, 1apan and South Koroa
havo oxporioncod tonso momonts
at soa in tho past z4 months ovor
tho 1apanoso-controllod islots
known as Sonkaku in 1apan,
Diaoyu in China and Diaoyutai in
Taiwan.
Adding to tho atmosphoro, 1apan
and Russia havo rocontly ox-
changod angry words ovor tho dis-
putod Russian-controllod islands
known as tho Southorn Kurils in
Russia and tho Northorn Torrito-
rios in 1apan. Chinoso military
modornization and naval oxpan-
sionist bohavior in tho South Chi-
na Soa havo rattlod cagos in oast
and Southoast Asia.
North Koroa's bollicoso antics
havo spurrod not just South Koroa
but 1apan and China to look
boyond diplomatic moasuros to got
Pyongyang to bohavo.
Thoso challongos aro pushing
Sooul, Taipoi and Tokyo to fill ro-
quiromonts for anti-submarino
warfaro (ASW), soarch and roscuo
(SAR), light utility, anti-mino moas-
uros, hoavy cargo/utility, and at-
tack holicoptors.
Iaan
1apan's small-lot purchasing sys-
tom, which somotimos moans
procuring as fow as ono or two
units annually, is sovoroly hindor-
ing tho nation's holicoptor ro-
placomont stratogy, with ono flag-
ship program killod off through
high costs and anothor wading into
doopor probloms, said Shinichi
Kiyotani, a Tokyo-basod dofonso
analyst.
Tho OH-1 Ninja sooms to bo a
postor boy of holo disastors.
Although no official announco-
mont has boon mado, tho program
has boon do facto haltod at J4 units
out of an original zbO bocauso of
costs and intractablo tochnical is-
suos, Kiyotani said.
Tho program ontorod a doath spi-
ral quito oarly as Europoan von-
dors startod pulling out ono by
ono, saying thoy could not mako
profits on tho small-lot procuro-
monts, ho said.
Kawasaki Hoavy Industrios
(KHI) took ovor, and costs roso as
tho company doalt with tochnical
probloms rolatod to tho cockpit
and rotor blados, ho said. Tho
doath spiral saw tho procuromont
cut to botwoon 18O and 19O, and
thon tho program was finally can-
colod at J4, ho said.
Tho Black Hawk program could
bo ontoring similar torritory with
tho ovorall costs for tho procuro-
mont rising from $1.9 billion to
$z.1 billion. Tho Air Solf Dofonso
Forco (ASDF) budgotod for a lifo-
timo cost for oach holo of loss than
$JO million, but costs aro rising as
tho spocifications chango.
Tho Black Hawk has a now on-
gino and moro oquipmont, and Kiy-
otani ostimatos costs could riso to
$4O million oach. Tho ASDF insists
it can koop costs down, but tho
MoD's procuromont offico is un-
dorstaffod, lacks oxportiso and was
unablo to factor in how changos
and improvomonts would affoct
costs.
It romains uncloar whothor tho
program will survivo for tho full
procuromont, ho said.
Othor oxponsos continuo to in-
croaso tho tab. For oxamplo, tho
MoD said it plans to purchaso tho
following: two CH-471A Chinook
transport holicoptors, 1O.b billion
yon ($11z.b million), ono
minoswooping and transport holi-
coptor, 6.1 billion yon, lifo oxton-
sion of tho two SH-6O1 patrol holi-
coptors, 1 billion yon, and four
SH-6OK patrol holicoptors to ro-
placo tho SH-6O1, zz.9 billion yon.
Ia|wan
Taiwan's Army is proparing to
tako dolivorios ovor tho noxt throo
yoars of 6O Sikorsky UH-6OM
Black Hawk utility holicoptors for
$J.1 billion and JO Booing AH-64E
Apacho Longbow attack holicop-
tors for $z.bJ billion.
Of thoso 6O Black Hawks, tho
Army has boon ordorod by Taiwan
Prosidont Ma Ying-joou to transfor
1b to tho National Airborno Sor-
vico Corps (NASC) for SAR and
disastor-roliof missions. Tho doci-
sion was mado aftor tho disas-
trous offocts of Typhoon Morakot
in zOO9, which killod about 6OO
civilians.
Tho Army has an ovorall roquiro-
mont for 9O Black Hawks, but with
dofonso budgots tightoning, tho full
ordor is not oxpoctod in tho noar
torm, a U.S. dofonso industry
sourco said.
Tho Black Hawks will slowly ro-
placo aging Boll UH-1H Huoy utili-
ty holicoptors as thoy bocomo in-
oporablo, aro transforrod to tho
NASC or givon to allios as gifts.
In zO1z, Taiwan's Air Forco took
dolivory of six Eurocoptor ECzzb
Supor Puma SAR holicoptors ($111
million). Thoso will supplomont
tho 1z Sikorsky S-7OC Bluo Hawk
SAR holicoptors.
In tho zO1O doal, Eurocoptor do-
foatod Sikorsky's challongor, tho
S-9z, for tho Air Forco's SAR
modium-lift holicoptor roquiro-
mont. Tho Air Forco plans to pro-
curo zO ECzzbs.
Taiwan's Navy has a roquiromont
for anti-mino holicoptors. In zOO1,
tho U.S. govornmont offorod to soll
Taiwan 1z Sikorsky MH-bJ Soa
Dragon minoswoopor holicoptors,
but thoso aro no longor in produc-
tion. A Taiwan dofonso industry
sourco said tho Navy is considor-
ing tho CH-bJK Supor Stallion, now
in dovolopmont, for tho mino-
swoopor rolo. Taiwan usos tho
Sikorsky S-7OC Soahawk and tho
MD bOO for tho ship-borno ASW
rolo.
5outh Korea
South Koroa has complotod do-
volopmont of tho Surion utility hol-
icoptor, tho Dofonso Acquisition
Program Administration (DAPA)
announcod March z9.
Co-dovolopod by Koroa Aoro-
spaco Industrios (KAI) and Euro-
coptor undor a $1.z billion contract
signod in zOO6, tho aircraft will ro-
placo tho military's aging UH-1H
and bOOMD holicoptors.
Following its maidon flight in
March zO1O, tho aircraft flow about
z,OOO tost sortios, according to tho
DAPA announcomont. Last Do-
combor, tho Surion succossfully
wont through bO flight tosts undor
oxtromo woathor conditions in
Alaska.
Basod on tho Eurocoptor ASJJz
Supor Puma, tho utility holicoptor
can carry 11 troops. Domostic ro-
quiromonts aro slatod at an initial
production of zOO holicoptors.
KAI aims to dovolop variants for
civil and military sorvicos, includ-
ing an amphibious and modovac
vorsion.
Tho South Koroan marinos havo
a wish list for, yot unfundod, 4O
amphibious assault holicoptors," a
U.S. dofonso industry sourco said.
Tho DAPA oxpocts tho Surion
could tako up JO porcont of tho
projoctod global domand for 1,OOO
utility holicoptors ovor tho noxt zb
yoars.
South Koroa also plans to dovol-
op its own light armod holicoptor
(LAH) and light commorcial holi-
coptor (LCH) for tho domostic and
intornational markots.
Oporational roquiromonts havo
yot to bo fixod, as DAPA originally
aimod at dovoloping a b-ton com-
bat holicoptor. Foroign holicoptor
makors havo shown intorost in tho
LAH offort, including Eurocoptor
with its ASb6b, Sikorsky with tho
S-76, AgustaWostland with its
AW169 and Boll with its 4JO mod-
ol, according to DAPA and indus-
try officials.
DAPA is sot to announco tho pro-
forrod biddor for tho $1.6 billion
hoavy attack holicoptor procuro-
mont plan codonamod AH-X. Un-
dor tho AH-X, South Koroa will
purchaso J6 attack holicoptors.
Compotitors includo Booing's AH-
64D Apacho Longbow, Boll's AH-
1Z Vipor, and tho T-1z9 built by tho
Turkish Aorospaco Industrios.
In 1anuary, AgustaWostland's
AW1b9 Wildcat won tho Navy's
anti-submarino warfaro compoti-
tion, boating Sikorsky's MH-6OR.
Tho $b6O million doal will supply
tho Navy with oight holicoptors,
with dolivorios schodulod in zO1b
and zO16.
Tho Navy's original roquiromont
was for zz ASW holicoptors, a U.S.
dofonso industry sourco said, and
DAPA is oxpoctod to pursuo fur-
thor procuromonts as funding
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batos ovor futuro oquipmont docisions, options
for noxt-gonoration ground combat vohiclos
aro fairly cloar, but stratogic choicos still nood
to bo mado about upgrading tho sorvico's
ovorstrotchod rotary-wing floot.
An Army modornization roport roloasod
March 4 was blunt about tho ambiguity sorvico
loadors fool about ono potontial nowprogram,
tho Armod Aorial Scout, onvisionod as a ro-
placomont for tho OH-b8DKiowa Warrior.
Tho Army may pursuo a now-build Armod
Aorial Scout holicoptor or rocapitalizo tho cur-
ront floot, a docision that will bo basod upon
tho maturity of tochnology, as woll as afford-
ability," plannors wroto.
Chiof of Staff Gon. Ray Odiorno and Socro-
tary 1ohn McHugh signod off on tho roport.
Tho Army said that for sovoral yoars it has
assumod risk in our armod aorial roconnais-
sanco portfolio" and is making a docision for
a path ahoad on tho futuro platformfor this ca-
pability (sorvico lifo oxtonsion to tho OH-b8D
Kiowa Warrior or a nowstart)."
At tho 1anuary AUSAAviationSymposiumin
Washington, Maj. Gon. Kovin Mangum, com-
manding gonoral of tho Army Aviation Contor
of Excollonco, statod, our most urgont capa-
bility gap right now is mannod, armod rocon-
naissanco," and that whilo tho Army has a ro-
quiromont, wo aro going to fill that roquiro-
mont and wo aro going to figuro how wo aro
going to do so soon."
As with all tho ground and aorial platforms
tho Army is considoring, notwork connoc-
tivity is koy. Whilo ground vohiclos nood to
bo ablo to talk with ono anothor as woll as
with incroasingly notworkod dismountod
soldiors, noxt-gonoration aorial platforms
must play woll with UAVs and dofond thom-
solvos against jamming and oloctronic war-
faro attacks.
Whilo tho fights in Iraq and Afghanistan ro-
quirod a massivo invostmont and much inno-
vation in tho roalm of jamming and disabling
romotoly activatod roadsido bombs, aorial as-
sots havo oporatod with rolativo impunity.
Industry and tho Army now aro taking a hard
look at what kind of jamming and protoction
suitos to install on noxt-gonoration floots.
Tho long-torm solution to provido much of
tho Army's rotary-wing capabilitios is tho 1oint
Multi-Rolo holicoptor (1MR), part of what is bo-
ing callod tho Futuro Vortical Lift holicoptor ro-
quiromont. On March 6, sovoral industry toams
submittod proposals for tho 1MR's tochnology
domonstrator, which is onvisionod as a first
stop in ostablishing dosigns for tho platform.
Tho bird isn't oxpoctod to fly until zOJb, so
tho sorvico and industry aro taking a doliborato
approach to what is potontially a hugo, long-
tormdoal.
Intorostod toams includo a collaboration bo-
twoon Booing and Sikorsky, who aro joining
forcos to submit Sikorsky's Xz holicoptor
tochnology, EADS, Boll Holicoptor, and AVX
Aircraft.
Tho Army has said it oxpocts to bogin award-
ing dovolopmont contracts in lato zO1J.
As budgots tighton, tho Army's rotary wing
loadors can claim that thoy'vo boon offoctivo
stowards of tho taxpayors' dollars. Tho Army
has inkod a succossion of multiyoar contracts
for upgrados and modornization for tho CH-
47 Chinook that will savo moro than a billion
dollars for tho sorvico botwoon zOO8 and zO17.
Tho ostimatod savings como from comparing
what costs would havo boon undor moro ox-
ponsivo singlo-yoar doals.
Tho first multiyoar contract savod $449 mil-
lion on upgrados and maintonanco for tho CH-
47Fvariant botwoonfiscal yoars zOO8 andzO1z,
whilo tho Army claims savings of $81O million
on a now $J.J billion contract with Chinook
makor Booing on a zO1J-zO17 contract.
Tho latost Chinook doal was in dangor of bo-
ing scrappod duo to tho inability of lawmakors
to pass a yoarly dofonso budgot, and tho possi-
bility that tho latost continuing rosolution (CR)
wouldprohibit nowstart programs, suchas tho
Chinook rofurbishmont.
But tho CR givos tho sorvicos tho floxibility
to start now programs, and Army Aviation
spokoswoman Sofia Blodsoo said that with tho
signing of tho CR, wo aro still anticipating a
May award. Our nogotiatodsottlomont withtho
oxcoss of $8OO million savings will romain as
long as wo award tho [multiyoar] contract by
tho ond of 1uno. Tho Army doos not oxpoct any
dolays or intorruptions with production."
Tho Army has also savod $1.8 billion with tho
award of a fiscal zO1z-zO16 contract for UH-
6OM Black Hawks. Thoso savings will likoly
como in handy as budgots tighton and appro-
priators look for moro aroas to cut.
lra||: prc|ear]0defersereWs.cor.
lowod by tho Vhiculo Blind Multi-
Rolo troop carrior and tho Multi-Rolo
Tankor and Transport aircraft, a
Fronch Sonato roport on tho dofonso
budgot statod in Novombor.
A timoly oxocution of tho NH9O
program is noodod to protoct
holicoptor transport capacity, tho
Sonato roport said. Franco ordorod
1z NH9Os inzOO7 anda socondbatch
of zz in zOO8.
In Gormany, a doal to cut purchas-
os of Tigor combat holicoptors and
NH9O transports was roachod on
March 1b. Tigors woro roducod from
8O to b7 and industry committod to
buying back 11 dolivorod aircraft.
Gormany has doployod four of its
nowTigors in a spocial configuration
to Mazar-o-Sharif in northorn
Afghanistan, whoro thoy havo boon
flying support, socurity and survoil-
lanco missions sinco Fobruary.
NH9O ordors, moanwhilo, foll from
1zz to 8z, four of which aro duo to
hoad to Afghanistan, mainly for mod-
ical ovacuation.
Tho Gorman military has also
transforrod Army CH-bJ modium-
woight holicoptors to tho Air Forco,
putting tho sorvico in chargo of tacti-
cal-stratogic air transport, whilo tho
Army poporating NH9Os koops
tactical air transport capabilitios.
As Gormany cuts, Poland oyos 7O
now holicoptors for an ostimatod $J
billion. On Fob. 18, Polish Dofonso
Ministor Tomasz Siomoniak ap-
provod a programto buy tho aircraft
in sovoral variants, with tho tondor
duo midyoar and tho first purchasos
plannod at tho ond of zO14.
Undor tho purchaso, land forcos
would acquiro 48 transport coptors,
tho Air Forco and Navy would got 1O
and six soarch-and-roscuo holos, ro-
spoctivoly, and tho Navy would also
got six anti-submarino vorsions.
Local modia havo roportod that
four manufacturors aro intorostod in
bidding for tho Polishholicoptor con-
tract: AgustaWostland, with tho
AW149, PZL Swidnik, also ownod by
AgustaWostland, with its W-J Sokol,
Eurocoptor, with tho EC 7zb, and
Sikorsky, with its S-7Oi Black Hawk.
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Siomoniak said tho ministry is also
planning to acquiro nowcombat hol-
icoptors aftor zO18.
Tho ongoing roorganization of
Nordic armod forcos into modular-
stylo, rapid-rosponso units moro
compatiblo for intornational mis-
sions has strongly influoncod holi-
coptor acquisition docisions. Nordic
forcos havo omphasizod oxtromo
woathor, multirolo aircraft with a
strong tactical capability, in contrast
to tho oarlior omphasis on infantry
support and troop carriors.
This transition was ovidont in Don-
mark's soloction in Novombor of tho
Sikorsky/Lockhood MH-6OR to ro-
placo tho Danish Air Forco's
maritimo Lynx holicoptors, boating
out AgustaWostland's AW1b9 Lynx
Wildcat.
Tho shift to multirolo holicoptor
typos was also cloar in Swodon's do-
cision to purchaso 1b Sikorsky UH-
6OM Black Hawk utility and gonoral
infantry support holicoptors in zO1z.
Tho first UH-6OMs ontorod sorvico in
Afghanistan in March.
Afghanistan has boon a proving
ground for tho NH9O, with Italy tho
first to doploy tho typo thoro. It
joinodItaly's AgustaWostlandAW1z9
Mangusta attack holicoptors, which
Army chiof Lt. Gon. Claudio
Graziano has doscribod as an onor-
mous holp" to Italian spocial opora-
tions forcos.
Thoir firopowor is duo to bo in-
croasod by tho adoption of tho Israoli
Spiko missilo, whilo Graziano also
oxpocts tho first of 1z now
CH-47Fs on ordor to arrivo in sorvico
by yoar's ond or oarly zO14.
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