New detachment to help accelerated testing of Air Force's UH-1N replacement helicopters

By Sara Sirota / December 19, 2019 at 1:20 PM
Air Force Global Strike Command activated Detachment 7 on Wednesday to ensure a fast developmental and operational testing schedule for the service’s four new MH-139As -- the Huey replacement helicopters that will provide security and transportation for the service’s intercontinental ballistic missile mission. “The test program and effort is structured to field this as soon as possible,” Lt. Col. Mary Clark, Det. 7 commander, said in an interview Wednesday. “We know that there are nuclear security implications and we’ve been...

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