One year after the Combat Rescue Helicopter program received a searing review from the Pentagon’s chief weapons evaluator, more testing has exposed new technical constraints and performance issues in degraded visual and live-fire environments. Director of Operational Test and Evaluation Robert Behler wrote in a new report released Thursday that "poorly designed hover symbology does not provide necessary safety-of-flight cues" in conditions where pilots have poor visibility. He also found the Sikorsky-built HH-60W helicopter's mission planning system does not have...
