Foreign name: Blackhawk helicopter
Capacity: 11
Maximum takeoff weight: 10 tons
Maximum speed: 292 kilometers per hour
Range: 603 kilometers
The "Blackhawk" helicopter is the general multipurpose helicopter utilizing the U.S. military. In addition to the driver, this aircraft can carry 11 soldiers, and in emergency situations can carry 19 people. The main task of transporting assault troops and attacking ground targets is to perform the front, and sometimes also used to rescue the wounded from the battlefield.
The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter gunship is a multi-purpose U.S. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation manufactured combat assault transport and rescue, reconnaissance, command, electronic warfare and anti-submarine warfare. Currently, the main type of "Black Hawk" UH-60A UH-60L 2.
"Black Hawk" basic type UH-60A 19.76 meters long, 2.36 meters wide body, 5.13 meters tall, semi-monocoque fuselage structure.
Black Hawk helicopter aircraft maximum take-off weight of about 10 tons, 292 kilometers of maximum speed, range of 603 kilometers, "Black Hawk" avionics is very complete, in addition to a variety of foreign advanced electronic warfare equipment, the upper body there is also a special treatment of surface-to-air missiles AN/ALQ-144 infrared interferers of the Thermal conductivity.
The U.S. Army is used to the American Indian tribes native to the name of the Blackhawk aircraft is the chief of the Sauk/Fox Indian Tribe, 1832 Wisconsin is now the Hatchet River side of the battle with the United States, the tribe destroyed. But the Americans were still in awe of him and named the Black Hawk helicopter utility helicopter of the main U.S. military in the 80s. In addition, the Black Hawk helicopter and the ferocious bird "Hawk" is also the main reason for the name in common.
Ten years, and the need for a large number of maintenance facilities, etc. were not taken seriously. Until the Vietnam War, the Pentagon was forced to use UH-1 Iroquois helicopters (the predecessor of the Black Hawk), so that soldiers who arrived on the battlefield of the war helicopters, quickly retreated to safety, began to change. Currently, *** there are six models of Black Hawk helicopters for general purpose UH-60A and UH-60L, UH-60Q for medical and rescue purposes, EH-60A for electronic warfare purposes, MH-60L and MH-60K for special mission purposes.