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First employing their unguided rocket payload before circling around the ship at the end of the run.

And now returning over the right shoulder, we'll see a combination of 20mm machine guns, unguided rockets, and lastly they will depart to the north prior to returning to suppress the area with crews surveying weaponry with .50 caliber machine guns to ensure target destruction.

Paul, the utility of those helicopters is pretty extraordinary.

You've got anti-submarine helicopters.

You have a whole different... Walk us through quickly what the different types of helicopters are and how they add both of the... You've got the surface combatants out there and the carrier.

You know, it's interesting, Steve.

I manage both of those programs, the Romeo and the Sierra as the IPT lead.

We have only two helicopters now with the 53s.

We ran a program called the Common Cockpit.

The cockpits are virtually the same.

That's the key.

So training and how we get people through the pipeline is completely different than what used to be, where we all had stovepipe helicopters and training.

The Sierra is more of the tactical insertion extraction.

The Romeo now is the ASW bird, anti-submarine bird.

But they both have guns and missiles now.

And they're also NVG compatible, which they weren't for decades, unfortunately.

Magnificent airplanes, by the way.

Let's see, go ahead.

Admiral Massa, the helicopters add a whole different dimension when they're put on surface combatants, do they not?

Absolutely, and in fact, if you think about different missions, specifically anti-submarine warfare, if we are in contact with a submarine, you really want to fight that submarine with a helicopter.