{"id":15797180,"date":"2026-08-24T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/norway-21-uh-60m-black-hawk-fms-approval-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:16:32","slug":"norway-21-uh-60m-black-hawk-fms-approval-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/norway-21-uh-60m-black-hawk-fms-approval-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Swaps Rescue Helicopters for 21 UH-60M Black Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>In July 2025 the United States approved the sale of nine HH-60W Jolly Green II combat rescue helicopters to Norway. It was a specialised, expensive, superbly capable machine built for one demanding job: going into hostile territory to bring downed aircrew home.<\/p>\n\n<p>Norway has now walked away from it. On 21 August 2026 the State Department approved something rather different instead: up to 21 UH-60M Black Hawks, worth $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fewer specialists. Far more helicopters. For a country whose defence problem is measured in Arctic kilometres, that trade tells you something.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;text-align:left\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">What was approved<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Up to 21 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Value<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">$2.3 billion (U.S. Foreign Military Sale)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Approved<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">21 August 2026, U.S. Department of State<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Engines<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">46 &times; General Electric T700-GE-701D<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Self-protection<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">25 sets AN\/AAR-57 CMWS, CIRCM, AN\/APR-39E(V)2 radar warning receivers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Arctic equipment<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Snow skis for the landing gear, external fuel tanks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Other kit<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Bambi buckets, casualty litters, fast-rope insertion equipment, MX-10D EO\/IR turrets, M240H machine guns, M134 miniguns<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Datalink<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Link 16<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Likely replaces<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">18 Bell 412s, in service over 30 years<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Next step<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">15-day Congressional review, then contract negotiation<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Norway Gave Up, and What It Bought<\/h2><p>The HH-60W is a combat search and rescue aircraft in the purest sense. The UH-60M is a utility helicopter, which sounds like a downgrade until you look at what Norway actually has to do with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Norway is a long, thin country with a great deal of territory north of the Arctic Circle and a land border with Russia. Moving soldiers, equipment and special operations teams across that terrain quickly is the daily problem. Rescuing downed aircrew is an occasional one. Twenty-one general-purpose helicopters solve the daily problem; nine specialised ones do not.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Arctic reality shows up in the shopping list. Among the additional equipment specified in the approval are snow skis for the landing gear.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=20196723  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/uh-60m-air-assault-swedish-armed-forces-training.jpg\" alt=\"UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters during air assault operations with Swedish forces\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Swedish UH-60Ms during air assault training. Sweden has operated the type since 2012 and ordered 12 more in 2024, giving the Nordic region a growing pool of common airframes. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Engine Is the Clever Part<\/h2><p>The T700-GE-701D powerplant is the detail that makes this more than a helicopter purchase. Norway&rsquo;s AW101 Merlins, used for search and rescue, run on the same basic engine. So do the Royal Norwegian Navy&rsquo;s MH-60R Seahawks. If the long-rumoured additional AW101 buy in an anti-submarine configuration goes ahead, that would use the T700 as well.<\/p>\n\n<p>One engine line. One spares pipeline. One set of technicians. For a small air force, commonality is not an accounting detail, it is the difference between a fleet that flies and a fleet that waits for parts.<\/p>\n\n<p>The State Department was explicit about what Washington gets out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The proposed sale will improve Norway&rsquo;s capability to meet current and future threats and enhance its interoperability with U.S. and other allied forces. It will also upgrade Norway&rsquo;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.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>U.S. Department of State<\/strong> &mdash; approval notice, 21 August 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Nordic Black Hawk Bloc<\/h2><p>Sweden already flies the UH-60M, having bought 15 and then added 12 more in 2024. Finland and Sweden are now both in NATO. If Norway&rsquo;s 21 arrive, the Nordic countries will operate a substantial common fleet of the same airframe along Russia&rsquo;s northern flank, with the same training, the same maintenance, and crews who can move between them.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1465609838336090113&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Black Hawk first flew more than 50 years ago. The U.S. Army is already looking past it to the MV-75 Cheyenne II. None of that has stopped the type from attracting continued investment, and none of it has stopped a NATO member from spending $2.3 billion on a fresh fleet in 2026.<\/p>\n\n<p>One caution: this is an approval, not a contract. Congress has 15 days to review it, and Norway has not yet publicly acknowledged the decision. The final numbers can move.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources: U.S. Department of State approval notice, 21 August 2026; Defense Security Cooperation Agency; The Aviationist; Army Recognition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/denmark-p-8-poseidon-arctic-greenland-2026\/\">Denmark Sends P-8 Poseidons to the Arctic<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/finland-f-35a-hornet-phase-out-lapland-2026\/\">Finland Begins Phasing Out the Hornet for the F-35A<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/nato-saab-globaleye-replace-e-3-awacs-2026\/\">NATO Picks the Swedish GlobalEye to Replace the E-3<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2025 the United States approved the sale of nine HH-60W Jolly Green II combat rescue helicopters to Norway. 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