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This book describes the coming of the CH-53K Kilo to the USMC and to its first international customer, the Israeli Defence Force. It is based on extensive interviews with the persons involved in the development, testing, build, and maintenance of the new combat air system. For air system it is -- built by the digital thread development and manufacturing approach, the aircraft is designed with maintainability and fleet support in operations as a key focus of the program, If it were called CH-55 instead of the CH-53K perhaps one would get the point that these are very different air platforms, with very different capabilities. What they have in common, by deliberate design, is a similar logistical footprint, so that they could operate similarly off of amphibious ships or...