Lawmakers balked at sole-source replacement of USAF’s UH-1Ns

Twelve U.S. lawmakers are against the plan by the U.S. Air Force to forgo a competition to replace its aging UH-1N helicopters and replace them with the UH-60.

140109-F-JW079-073 37HS UH-1N carries Chuck Hagel to missile alert facility in western Nebraska
By U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The group also lectured the flying branch for failing to properly plan for a replacement as the requirement for a new helicopter to guard the ICBM missile fields had been known since 2002.