A military helicopter is a helicopter that is either specifically built or converted for use by military forces. A military helicopter's mission is a function...
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States military helicopters. List of U.S. military equipment named for Native Americana U.S. DoD aircraft designations table List of military aircraft...
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infantry, military vehicles and fortifications. Due to their heavy armament they are sometimes called helicopter gunships. Attack helicopters can use weapons...
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A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and...
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battle front. Military transport helicopters are used in places where the use of conventional aircraft is impossible. For example, the military transport...
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injured in northeastern Syrian helicopter accident, military says". USA Today. 13 June 2023 – via MSN. "US military says helicopter accident in northeastern...
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російських льотчиків. Mil.in.ua (in Ukrainian). 13 June 2022. "Mi-28 military helicopter crashes in Crimea, both pilots killed — top brass". TASS. Retrieved...
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Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk (redirect from Blackhawk helicopter)
UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design...
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2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown (redirect from 2011 NATO helicopter crash)
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting...
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2022. Cartlidge, James (13 February 2024). "Military Aircraft". Retrieved 13 February 2024. "Sloane Helicopters: Contracts". Retrieved 21 November 2023....
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McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender (redirect from MD Helicopters Defender)
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems MD 500 Defender is a light multi-role military helicopter based on the MD 500 light utility helicopter and OH-6 Cayuse...
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The New Medium Helicopter (NMH) is a British military programme to procure up to 44 medium-lift support helicopters to replace the Westland Puma HC2 and...
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Eurocopter AS532 Cougar (redirect from Airbus Helicopters AS532 Cougar)
Eurocopter AS532 Cougar (now Airbus Helicopters H215M) is a twin-engine, medium-weight, multipurpose helicopter developed by Eurocopter. The AS532 is...
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Mil Mi-17 (redirect from Mi-17 helicopter)
Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production as of...
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The MD Helicopters MD 500 series is an American family of light utility civilian and military helicopters. The MD 500 was developed from the Hughes 500...
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Eurocopter EC725 (redirect from Airbus Helicopters EC725)
called Airbus Helicopters H225M, is a long-range tactical transport military helicopter developed from the Eurocopter AS532 Cougar for military use. It is...
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helicopter is a military helicopter equipped with aircraft ordnance. Most commonly, it is used for attacking targets on the ground. Such a helicopter...
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Westland Lynx (redirect from Lynx (helicopter))
Lynx is a British multi-purpose twin-engined military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil. Originally intended...
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Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota (redirect from U.S. Army Light Utility Helicopter Program)
The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) UH-72 Lakota is a twin-engine helicopter with a single, four-bladed main rotor. The UH-72 is a militarized version...
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Eurocopter AS565 Panther (redirect from Airbus Helicopters AS565 Panther)
Airbus Helicopters) AS565 Panther is the military version of the Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin medium-weight multi-purpose twin-engine helicopter. The Panther...
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Boeing AH-64 Apache (redirect from Apache helicopter)
AH-64 Apache (/əˈpætʃi/ ə-PATCH-ee) is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of...
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Bell Textron (redirect from Bell Helicopter Company)
Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, United States as well as commercial helicopters in Mirabel, Quebec...
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The black helicopter is a symbol of an alleged conspiratorial military takeover of the United States in the American militia movement, and has also been...
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Eurocopter Fennec (redirect from Airbus Helicopters Fennec)
Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) AS550 Fennec (now H125M) and AS555 Fennec 2 are lightweight, multipurpose military helicopters manufactured by Eurocopter...
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Bell H-13 Sioux (redirect from Texas Helicopter M74 Wasp)
single-engine light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter and manufactured by Westland Aircraft under license for the British military as the Sioux AH.1 and...
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NHIndustries NH90 (redirect from NH90 helicopter)
European medium-sized, twin-engine, multirole military helicopter. It was the first production helicopter to feature entirely fly-by-wire flight controls...
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Moscow, Russia. The company designs and manufactures civilian and military helicopters. The company's principal shareholder is Rostec. It is the world's...
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Boeing CH-47 Chinook (redirect from Chinook (helicopter))
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense...
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(nicknamed the Killer Egg) and its attack variant, the AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. Originally based...
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HAL Dhruv (redirect from Hindustan Advanced Light Helicopter)
designed to meet the requirement of both military and civil operators, with military variants of the helicopter being developed for the Indian Armed Forces...
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