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The UH‐60A Black Hawk: A World‐wide Force Multiplier

BOB KEFFORD (Project Manager, Black Hawk Improvement Sikorsky Aircraft, Division of United Technologies Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut, USA)

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 1 October 1982

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Abstract

The UH‐60A BLACK HAWK helicopter, Fig. 1, is the US Army's first true squad carrying assault helicopter. Its primary mission is to transport infantry units into combat, re‐supply those units while in combat, and perform the associated functions of aeromedical evacuation and repositioning of reserves.

Citation

KEFFORD, B. (1982), "The UH‐60A Black Hawk: A World‐wide Force Multiplier", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 54 No. 10, pp. 9-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035823

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1982, MCB UP Limited

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