Space for Hueys

Air Force Space Command is trying again to get funding for a UH-1N replacement, this time in the Fiscal 2010 budget request coming out next year. The Hueys are used to escort nuclear weapons convoys on the Minuteman III missile fields. But they lack the range and speed to respond to security threats...

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