The US Department of Defense awarded a contract for CH-53K rotorcraft “bed down and construction” in Israel.
A CH-53K ‘Pereh' helicopter for the Israeli Air Force being assembled by Sikorsky in a photo released on 15 August 2025. (Israel Ministry of Defense) Lockheed Martin's subsidiary Sikorsky has begun ...
Israel expects its first Lockheed Martin CH-53Ks to be delivered in 2028. The country placed the foreign military sales order for 12 aircraft in 2022. At the time, Lockheed Martin said the “baseline” ...