Air Force estimates spending $1.9 billion to buy 54 Grey Wolf helicopters across FYDP

By Sara Sirota / February 19, 2020 at 1:42 PM
The president's fiscal year 2021 budget proposal gives the first peek into the Air Force's acquisition plans for new utility helicopters that will patrol the military's intercontinental ballistic missile silos -- showing an anticipated expenditure of $1.9 billion on 54 MH-139 Grey Wolf aircraft across the future years defense program. In total, the Air Force will spend $2.8 billion on the acquisition program and buy 78 helicopters, starting with the first low-rate initial production lot of eight MH-139s in FY-21...

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