The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Norway for 21 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks and related equipment, with an estimated total cost of $2.3 billion.

The proposed sale will improve Norway’s capability to meet current and future threats and enhance its interoperability with U.S. and other allied forces. It will also upgrade Norway’s rotary wing capability, allowing Norwegian Army and Special Operations Forces to independently conduct operations while taking advantage of a common platform across the fleet. Norway will have no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its armed forces.

The Government of Norway has requested to buy twenty-one UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters plus forty-six  T700-GE-701D engines, twenty-five AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems, twenty-five Common Infrared Countermeasure, twenty-five (25) AN/APR-39E(V)2 Radar Warning Receiver, fifty (50) EAGLE-M+429 Embedded Global Positioning Systems/Inertial Navigation Systems, one hundred (100) AN/ARC-231A RT-1987 Very High Frequency (VHF)/Ultra High Frequency/ line-of-sight satellite communication radios and eighteen M240H machine guns.

The principal contractor will be Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky, located in Stratford, CT. At this time, the U.S. Government is not aware of any offset agreement proposed in connection with this potential sale. Any offset agreement will be defined in negotiations between the purchaser and the contractor.

Implementation of this proposed sale will require approximately fifteen U.S. Government and fifteen contractor representatives to travel to Norway for an extended period for equipment de-processing/fielding, system checkout, training, and technical and logistics support.