A powerful Senate defense spending panel has zeroed funding for the Air Force's effort to replace its aging HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search-and-rescue helicopters, citing concerns that the service's current recapitalization plan could yield the same result as a prior attempt, which was terminated by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Members of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee think the Air Force should develop a “more well-defined, affordable approach” to its long-term HH-60 recapitalization program, according to the subcommittee's report on the...
