The Marine Corps' $29 billion project to modernize its heavy-lift helicopter fleet has completed a two-week evaluation of the CH-53K King Stallion -- a key event in the campaign to ready the aircraft development program for low-rate production by prime contractor Sikorsky in early 2017. On Oct. 19, the CH-35K program completed the operational test and evaluation assessment -- dubbed OT-B1 -- at the Sikorsky Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, FL, according to the Navy. During the appraisal,...
