{"id":6815,"date":"2021-03-25T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2021-04-05T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:38:26","slug":"sikorsky-gets-99m-contract-to-deliver-black-hawk-helicopters-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/sikorsky-gets-99m-contract-to-deliver-black-hawk-helicopters-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky gets $99m contract to deliver Black Hawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi Arabia to receive Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft has received a $99.9 million contract to provide 25 modified UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Contracts\/Contract\/Article\/2549344\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopters will be delivered to the Saudi Arabian National Guard. The estimated completion date of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters is October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The deal follows a $200 million contract awarded in 2018 to provide 17 UH-60 <a href=\"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/tag\/helicopter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a80000;\">helicopters<\/span><\/a> for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration earlier paused multi-billion-dollar weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made under the Trump administration in order to further review the deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia to receive Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters American manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft has received a $99.9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1,125],"tags":[256,6,295,356,101,350],"class_list":["post-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-united-states","tag-aircraft","tag-defense","tag-helicopter","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sikorsky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sikorsky-UH-60M-Black-Hawk.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1LV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}