State Department approves $600 mln MH-60R Seahawk helicopters sale to Greece

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Greece of MH-60R Seahawk Multi-Mission Helicopters with support for an estimated cost of $600 million.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on July 12, 2019.

The Government of Greece has requested to buy up to seven MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopters equipped with ten APS-l 53(V) Multi-Mode Radars (7 installed, 3 spares), eighteen T700 GE-401 C Engines (14 installed, 4 spares), 7 Airborne Low Frequency System (ALFS), ten AN/ AAS-44C(V) Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems (7 installed, 3 spares), eighteen Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation Systems with Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) (14 installed, 4 spares), one-thousand AN/SSQ-36/53/62 Sonobuoys, two AGM-114 M36-E9 Captive Air Training Missiles (CATM), four AGM-114Q Hellfire Training Missiles, 100 Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS) Rockets, thirty MK 54 Torpedoes, twelve M-2400 Crew Served Guns and twelve  GAU-21 Crew Served Guns.

Also included are eighteen AN/ARC-210 APX-1990A(C) Radios with COMSEC (14 installed and 4 spares), twenty-four  AN/AVS-9 Night Vision Devices, ten  AN/APX-123 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders (8 installed, 2 spares) and other related elements of logistical and program support. The estimated total case value is $600 million.