CASR – Canadian American Strategic Review – In Detail  CASR |  In Detail | MHP Series Index | CH-124 Sea King | CH-148 Cyclone Defence Procurement – Maritime Helicopter Project – Updated to July 2004 Politics, Procurement Practices, and Procrastination: the Quarter-Century Sea King Helicopter Replacement Saga CASR Researcher, Stephen Priestley reviews DND's quarter-century long (and running) struggle to replace Canada's CH-124 Sea King Shipboard Helicopters.   Part 1  —  the MHP in the Current Political Landscape   Part 2  —  In the Beginning: the Search for a Sea King Replacement   Part 3  —  "Slide!" ...  Air Command Listens to its 'Power Animal'   Part 4  —  ASW Rebranded:  the New Shipboard Aircraft Project   •  Sidebar:  Obsessing Over Size?  or  Just Missing the Point?   Part 5  —  Open for Business:  the Contenders for the 'NSA'   Part 6  —  Open for Business:  the Contenders for the 'NSA' (Cont)   Part 7  —  Narrowing the Field and Racing for the Finishing Line   Part 8  —  "...'The Effects of a Permanent Income On Thought'..."   Part 9  —  Widening the 'New Shipboard Aircraft' Requirement   Part 10 –  NSA Contracts ... 'Buy Now! Do Not Pay Until 1995!'   Part 11 –  Out With the Old,  ...   the 1993 Federal Election   Part 12 –  Going 'Green':  An Unexamined Option for the NSA   Part 13 –  Running Out of Time, Options, and Alternatives   •  Sidebar:  Liberals Try Thinking Small With a Sea-Going Griffon   Part 14 –  the 1994 Defence White Paper and SAR Helicopters   Part 15 –  "Once more unto the breach" —  the MHP Candidates   Part 16 –  "We had joy, we had fun; we had Sea Kings in the Sun"   Part 17 –  "... Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things ..."   Part 18 –  "... Some shall be pardoned,  and some punishèd ..."