Anti-submarine Warfare Systems program office (PMA-264) needed a new platform to do quality-assurance testing of sonobuoys after the S-3 was retired in October.
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They hit on the idea of putting two SH-60B launchers on a pallet to roll on and off from the KC-130T operated by VX-30.
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