For many, the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, like the one involved in the Wednesday collision over the Potomac River ...

The Black Hawk is a US Army workhorse helicopter. It has been flying for decades. One tragically collided with a passenger ...

50 caliber machine gun; HYDRA 70 rockets ... It replaces the AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters (those that function as scouts in air cavalry troops and light attack companies) and OH-58A and C ...

The M134 GAU-17 “Vulcan” cannon is a six-barreled, air cooled, medium machine gun used primarily as a ... With the introduction of helicopters to the modern battlefield, the M61 system was ...

The description of a ship under tow (using the ... These multirole helicopters are typically armed with a single door-mounted 50-caliber heavy machine gun during these kinds of missions.

“The tree line seemed to explode with machine-gun fire,” said ... losses suffered by the U.S. helicopters caused heads to snap from Saigon to Washington. Under orders from President Kennedy ...