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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2022. Cartlidge, James (13 February 2024). "Military Aircraft". Retrieved 13 February 2024. "Sloane Helicopters: Contracts". Retrieved 21 November 2023....
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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utility helicopter is a multi-purpose helicopter capable of pursuing a wide array of tasks. They have proven useful in both civilian and military operations...
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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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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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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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2023, p. 145. Losey, Stephen (6 August 2024). "First Huey replacement helicopter delivered to US Air Force". Defense News. Retrieved 8 August 2024. "MQ-9...
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Airwolf is the helicopter from the 1980s American television series of the same name. Its fictional features included stratospheric ceiling, stealth noise...
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Bell UH-1 Iroquois (redirect from Bell UH-1 Helicopter)
(nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. It is the first member of the...
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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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