What are these?
Sep 5, 2022 11:23:08 #
Photographed these 3 crossing the Delaware Bay. Big, loud, I think Navy
Sep 5, 2022 11:29:41 #
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Sep 5, 2022 12:25:06 #
Sep 5, 2022 12:29:06 #
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.
Sep 5, 2022 12:36:08 #
Sep 5, 2022 13:11:38 #
WDCash wrote:
Photographed these 3 crossing the Delaware Bay. Big, loud, I think Navy
Florida mosquitoes.
Sep 5, 2022 13:11:50 #
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).
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).
Sep 5, 2022 20:56:01 #
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 .
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 .
Sep 6, 2022 07:15:53 #
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
Sep 6, 2022 07:30:51 #
WDCash wrote:
Photographed these 3 crossing the Delaware Bay. Big, loud, I think Navy
Sep 6, 2022 07:42:50 #
Shellback wrote:
Sep 6, 2022 08:02:29 #
CH-53's or the variant MH-53's mine sweeper. They are really noisy.
https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/ac/h-53.htm
https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/ac/h-53.htm
Sep 6, 2022 10:41:02 #
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