WDCash
Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA
Photographed these 3 crossing the Delaware Bay. Big, loud, I think Navy
Shellback
Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
They are Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallions
The CH-46 has a rotor forward and a rotor aft -
Sea Knight
Looks like they are US Navy Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion; or a variant of that class of helicopters made by Sikorsky for the Navy and Marine Corps.
Yep those particular choppers are combat rescue and special operations assault choppers. Marine raiders, Seals or combat rescue specialists going after downed aircrew etc. will often be riding these. Often one of these will be more heavily armed than an Attack Helicopter like the variations of the older Cobra and now the Apaches.
The Air Force operated a version of it for special ops also.
Only the Army didn't use them. The 160th Regiment "Night Stalkers" uses upgraded Blackhawks, Chinooks and the AH-3 "Little Bird" (which is considered obsolete by everyone else but the 160th).
WDCash
Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA
Thanks all.
They look a big like a dated design with the picture window windscreen. I'm guessing this "type" has been around a while?
The story
We were outside Delaware Bay, just outside, watching for whales. Spotted these 3 headed from Southern Del toward New Jersey. They are big so I spotted them a ways away.
As I'm trying to dial in to photograph them they went froma very wide " formation" to what you see here. Almost like they say the camera, from miles away, and formed up for a photo .
bgate wrote:
looks like the CH-46
As a door gunner on CH46's I can say it is definitely not a CH46 or Phrog.
Dennis
Also known as "Jolly Green Giants"?
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