While the Army says it wants to modernize and maintain its Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook helicopter fleets next year, the service's aircraft portfolio as a whole is set to drop by $2.25 billion from this fiscal year to the next, according to the fiscal year 2017 budget request. The Army is seeking $3.61 billion for aviation procurement and modernization in FY-17, as well as $313 million in overseas contingency operations funds for aircraft, for a total of nearly $3.93...
