Fake news.. Ain’t nothing official until Congress approves it. 2025 any maybe even beyond.
60 towed sonar was the Q-20, not the 24. Also, 60 was never going to try and tow the Mk105, the analogous system for the 60 was the OASIS.ALMDS is a joke and the other “MIW” packages for the Sierra are as well. An H60 cannot safety tow the Q24, and certainly not the Mk105 sked. HSC doesn’t want the mission set as it is.. Trust me, we all want to see the Dragon off into the sunset when the time is right, but until then someone has to do the mission. And the only airframe that can do it is the MH-53E.
ALMDS is a joke and the other “MIW” packages for the Sierra are as well. An H60 cannot safety tow the Q24, and certainly not the Mk105 sked. HSC doesn’t want the mission set as it is.. Trust me, we all want to see the Dragon off into the sunset when the time is right, but until then someone has to do the mission. And the only airframe that can do it is the MH-53E.
Thanks a bunch Johnny Rain-cloud.I've seen briefs showing skeds of how the 53 is going away for over a decade and they've been out there even longer than I've been reading them. Unfortunately for the HM community, we've seen this movie before and know how it ends. All the work to make the HM community healthy and normal will be undone due to financial constraints. HM will go back to doing whatever is needed to accomplish the mission to include gundecking and flying down aircraft. Community leadership will allow it because they'll convince themselves that if they don't fly down and broken airplanes that the community will go away because they didn't complete the mission. And then because the airplanes are ancient and busted no one will have any flight hours and everyone will spend all their time FCFing. And then the community will become insular from the rest of naval aviation and theyll start doing lots of other dumb things to get the mission done. And then people will crash airplanes and people will probably die.
ALMDS is a joke and the other “MIW” packages for the Sierra are as well. An H60 cannot safety tow the Q24, and certainly not the Mk105 sked. HSC doesn’t want the mission set as it is.. Trust me, we all want to see the Dragon off into the sunset when the time is right, but until then someone has to do the mission. And the only airframe that can do it is the MH-53E.