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A Boeing CH-47 Chinook at Campbell Army Airfield on 7 August 2012 delivering two Humvees by sling load. On 6 August 2011, a Chinook crashed near Kabul, killing all of the 38 aboard. The Chinook was reportedly shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade by the Taliban while attempting to assist a group of U.S. Navy SEALs. The 38 were members of ...
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In March 2015, the Army changed the name of the Ultra Light Combat Vehicle to the Ground Mobility Vehicle. A-GMV is intended to be carried internally in a CH-47 Chinook or externally by a UH-60 Black Hawk. In order to be survivable but transportable, the GMV would be lightly armored and use speed, maneuverability, and off-road mobility to avoid ...
Boeing CH-47 Chinook (1961) - most-produced tandem-rotor helicopter (over 1,200 built) Boeing Model 360 (1987) Boeing Vertol 107-II (1958) Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight (1960), military version of Vertol 107-II; Boeing Vertol XCH-62 (1970s - not completed) Boeing Vertol Model 234 (1981) Bristol Belvedere (1958) Bristol Type 173 (1952) Chu CJC ...
Examples include the unarmed versions of the Mil Mi-8, Super Puma, CH-46 Sea Knight, and NH90. Heavy lift helicopters are the largest and most capable of the transport types, currently limited in service to the CH-53 Sea Stallion and related CH-53E Super Stallion, CH-47 Chinook, Mil Mi-26, and Aérospatiale Super Frelon. [2]
The QTR study is one of five designs; one of the five is also a Boeing program, an advanced version of the CH-47 Chinook. [1] During the initial baseline design study, Bell's engineers were designing the wing, engine and rotor, while the Boeing team was designing the fuselage and internal systems. [9] A similar arrangement is used on the V-22.
463LMP Capacity AgustaWestland AW101: 2 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion: 2 Boeing CH-47 Chinook: 3 CASA/IPTN CN-235* 4 Lockheed C-130 Hercules E/H models: 6 Lockheed C-130 Hercules J-30 model: 8 Embraer KC-390: 7 Kawasaki C-2: 8 Airbus A400M Atlas: 9 Boeing 707: 13 Lockheed C-141 Starlifter A model: 10 Douglas DC-8-62: 14 Douglas DC-8-63: 18 ...
1 Medium or heavy lift? 7 comments. 2 Chinook loss August 2011. 2 comments. 3 Question. 2 comments. 4 Origin of name Chinook. 4 comments. 5 Greek Chinook loss in 2007 ...