Australia will buy 24 MH-60R helicopters through a foreign military sale with the U.S. Navy, the first-ever purchase of the variant outside the United States, Capt. Dean Peters, the H-60 program manager, announced today. The service will deliver the aircraft between 2014 and 2018, Peters told reporters. The MH-60R Seahawk will fill the role of the Australian Defense Force's AIR 9000 Phase 8 requirement for multirole naval combat aircraft. The Navy uses MH-60Rs for anti-submarine warfare and a host of...
