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Parent topics

• Rotary wing aircraft [r]: Aircraft, especially a helicopter, that is kept partially or completely airborne by airfoils rotating around a vertical axis. [e]
• Helicopter [r]: Aircraft with one or more power-driven horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades, that enable it to take off and land vertically, move in any direction, or remain stationary in the air. [e]

Subtopics

Variants

Army

• AH-60L Blackhawk [r]: Armed helicopter variant of the MH-60K Blackhawk, formerly the MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP) [e]
• UH-60M Blackhawk [r]: Main U.S. Army utility and light troop carrier helicopter, the latest of a number of versions [e]
• HH-60M Blackhawk [r]: Current U.S. Army medical evacuation ("air ambulance") helicopter [e]
• MH-60L Blackhawk [r]: U.S. Army Special Operations Command troop-carrying helicopter for covert infiltration and exfiltration [e]

Navy

• SH-60B Seahawk [r]: a naval helicopter with Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse (RAST) for operation from non-carrier warships; optimized for ASW and ASuW; it has offensive radar, magnetic anomaly detector, electronic warfare receivers, and two torpedo/missile pylons [e]
• SH-60F Ocean Hawk [r]: A naval helicopter intended to operate from aircraft carriers; Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse (RAST) , an extra weapons store, and FLIR [e]
• HH-60H Rescue Hawk [r]: A naval combat search and rescue helicopter based on the SH-60B Seahawk with extra fuel tanks [e]
• MH-60S Knighthawk [r]: U.S. Navy utility and mine countermeasures helicopter, replacing CH-46 Sea Knight in non-Marine applications, HH-60H Rescue Hawk, MH-53E Sea Dragon minesweeper [e]
• MH-60R Seahawk [r]: Both a new production aircraft and a remanufacture of the existing SH-60B Seahawk and SH-60F Ocean Hawk naval helicopter, for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare, eliminating the carrier vs. non-carrier variants [e]

Air Force

• HH-60G PAVE HAWK [r]: Add brief definition or descriptiona CSAR variant with GPS, navigation radar, and defensive avionics
• MH-60G PAVE HAWK [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionadding FLIR to the HH-60G.

Coast Guard

• SH-60J [r]: Add brief definition or description, a Seahawk with RAST, search radar, additional navigation electronics, searchlight, night vision goggles and no weapons.

Electronics

• AAR-47 [r]: A threat detector for aircraft; all versions detect the heat of oncoming missiles; modified versions also detect laser designator beams [e]
• ALE-39 [r]: An obsolete dispenser of electronic warfare expendables (e.g., flares and chaff), to be replaced by the AN/ALE-47 [e]
• ALQ-144 [r]: A defensive electronic warfare system for U.S. military helicopters, which provides infrared countermeasures against heat-seeking missiles and can also control an radar jammer [e]
• APR-39 [r]: A radar warning receiver and electronics countermeasures suite controller that provides coverage for C/D and E through J band CW radar, used on helicopters and slow fixed-wing aircraft [e]
• ARC-187 [r]: A multiservice HAVE QUICK II transceiver with JTIDS capability [e]

Weapons

• AGM-114 Hellfire [r]: A U.S. Army guided missile, fired from attack helicopters, unmanned aerial vehiclea and ground platforms against tanks and other armored vehicles, bunkers, "soft" vehicles, and cave targets. [e]
• AGM-119 Penguin [r]: U.S. Navy helicopter-launched version of the Kongsberg Penguin missile; largely replaced the AGM-84 Harpoon for anti-surface warfare [e]
• FIM-92 Stinger [r]: A second-generation United States Army surface-to-air missile that can be fired from a soldier's shoulder, from vehicle-mounted launchers, and, in an air-to-air missile configuration, from attack helicopters. Uses combined infrared-ultraviolet guidance to resist countermeasures. [e]
• M134 (machine gun) [r]: A U.S. medium machine gun, firing 7.62mm ammunition but rotating-barrel and belt-fed as opposed to the more common, but slower firing single barrel machine guns. [e]

Other related topics

• Air refueling [r]: Transferring fuel from one aircraft to another while both are in flight. [e]
• Army Special Operations Command [r]: A command that trains and prepares U.S. Army special operations personnel, including United States Army Special Forces, and serves as the land forces component of United States Special Operations Command [e]
• Forward-looking infrared [r]: A device that can "see" objects by their heat emissions and difference from background, in conditions including night and fog [e]
• Littoral Combat Ship [r]: A light, relatively low-cost U.S. Navy warship type, capable of ocean crossings but optimized for coastal operations [e]
• Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse [r]: A system to help naval helicopters operate from destroyers, cruisers, and other warships without a flight deck; it involves a cable system, with helicopter components and a high-power winch on the ship, for stabilizing landing and hover; known as RAST (helicopter) [e]

• MQ-8 [r]: A multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicle, in the form of a helicopter with relatively long endurance, whose functions include surveillance and communications relay [e]
• CH-53 Sea Stallion [r]: A heavy helicopter originally developed by the U.S. Navy for supporting Marine amphibious operations and Naval logistics, it remains the core of heavy lift for amphibious warfare, but has spawned combat search and rescue (HH-53), minesweeping (RH-53) and special operations (MH-53 PAVE LOW) variants [e]
• MH-53 PAVE LOW [r]: A U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command long-range heavy helicopter, with all-weather and night capability, used for combat search and rescue, guiding other helicopters without equivalent night and navigation equipment, and infiltrating, exfiltrating, and supplying special operations personnel [e]
• AH-54 Apache [r]: Add brief definition or description
• OH-58 Kiowa Warrior [r]: A United States Army helicopter with extensive sensors for surveillance and guiding weapons fired by other air or ground weapons platforms, and also is a light attack helicopter on its own rights. [e]