Boeing website here (gonna need a translation service...it is in German).
Everyone is predicting an easy CH-53K win but I doubt it. The Germans are cost conscious with regard to military spending. I don't think they'll pay the price for what the CH-53K offers. Additionally Boeing is making the case that the CH-47 can lift any and everything a military force requires from its helo force. So far Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin hasn't found an answer to that meme.
My prediction?
CH-47 over the objections of the German Air Force. It'll be based on cost, not necessarily performance.
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