Taiwan training UH-60M rescue crews
Taiwan’s National Airborne Service Corps (NASC) has started transition training on its new Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters.
Twenty crewmembers – 12 pilots and eight crew chiefs – will train for five months at FlightSafety International in West Palm Beach, Florida. The first Black Hawk squadron will be established in November.
The sale of 60 Black Hawks to Taiwan was announced by the Obama administration in early 2010, after the island suffered significant losses from Typhoon Morakot in 2009.
According to Taiwanese defence analyst Spencer Yang, ‘Morakot intensified the pressure on Washington to sell UH-60s to Taiwan.’ A quarter of
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