{"id":81992,"date":"2018-09-26T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81992"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:36","slug":"huey-replacement-nothing-will-ever-replace-the-huey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81992","title":{"rendered":"Huey replacement? Nothing will ever replace the Huey."},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an upset, a Boeing-Leonardo team has won a $2.38 billion contract to manufacture a new batch of helicopters to\u00a0replace the Air Force\u2019s UH-1N Huey<\/a>\u00a0used to guard the service\u2019s nuclear missile silos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Boeing and Leonardo\u2019s MH-139<\/a>, a militarized version of the commercial AW139 manufactured by Leonardo subsidiary AgustaWestland in Philadelphia, beat out Lockheed Martin Sikorsky and Sierra Nevada Corp., which both offered versions of the UH-60 Black Hawk \u2014 which some analysts saw as the service\u2019s aircraft of choice going into the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As such, the Sept. 24 contract announcement is a major victory for the Boeing-Leonardo team, which received an initial $375 million for the first four helicopters and the integration of military-specific items needed to bring the AW139 to the Air Force\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Air Force touted the program of an example of cost savings, noting that the service was able to bring down the price of the program from its original $4.1 billion cost estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Strong competition drove down costs for the program, resulting in $1.7 billion in savings to the taxpayer,\u201d Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I realize things need to be updated … I just get this odd feeling in the pit of my stomach when they do it sometimes.\u00a0 \u00a0I remember when my driver managed to “come up with” the armor for our M151.\u00a0 We felt so much better sporting about with that canvas and plastic enclosure protecting us.\u00a0 \u00a0Some things needed to be upgraded, I just have warm memories of days when everything was not bulletproof.<\/p>\n

They may upgrade to some newfangled gyrobird\u00a0of some sort, but they can never replace Huey.<\/p>\n

The Huey and the Cobra have more combat flight time than any other aircraft in the history of warfare.<\/p>\n

Bell Helicopter built 10,005 Hueys from 1957 to 1975. Of the 10,005 production Hueys, 9,216 went to the U.S. Army, 127 to the U.S. Marine Corps, 79 to the U.S. Air Force and 42 to the U.S. Navy.\u00a0 The rest went to other countries.<\/p>\n

Today, There are only 113 B models registered. 9 E models, 12 F models, 10 Training F Models, 1 HH-1K, 8 TH-1L\u2019s, 14 UH-1L, 3 M models, 1 P model, 5 civilian 205\u2019s and 547 UH-1H\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 There are zero registered for all other makes and models of the military variant hueys, leaving only 723 Military varient Huey models in all registered today.<\/p>\n

The Huey remains a legend as the most successful rotorcraft in Aviation History.\u00a0 \u00a0 Link HERE.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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