Sierra Nevada To Install Degraded Visual Environment System on Air Force Pave Hawks

摘要

Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp. is to provide new capabilities for the Air Force HH-60GPave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopters by Sikorsky [LMT] to allow the helicopters toperform better in degraded visual environments.On May 22, Air Force Materiel Command awarded Sierra Nevada a nearly $75 million contractfor the installation of a Degraded Visual Environment System (DVES) for 85 Air Force HH-60Gsby May 2024.The Army Combat Readiness Center has reported that degraded visual environments caused asignificant portion of U.S. military aircraft crashes and aviation fatalities since 2002. Indegraded visual environments, aircrews have low or zero visibility during takeoff, normal flightand landing under conditions that can include brownout, smoke, sand, snow, rain, night andfog.