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Som du uten videre forstår, utvikles Black Hawk i nye varianter. CSAR er de mest utsatte og tøffeste helikopteroperasjoner en kan tenke seg. Jeg tror at velprøvde Black Hawk er verdt å satse på for Norge når vi skal ha nye hær-helikopter og maskiner til våre spesialstyrker. Jeg nevner nok en gang at våre NH90 bør skiftes ut med den mariniserte utgaven Seahawk som danskene har. (Red.)

New combat rescue helicopter for Air Force finishes key tests

Rachel S. Cohen

1 day ago

An HH-60W Pave Hawk with the 413th Flight Test Squadron hangs in the anechoic chamber at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems hangar in January 2020 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The J-PRIMES anechoic chamber is a room designed to stop internal reflections of electromagnetic waves, as well as insulate from external sources of electromagnetic noise. (Samuel King Jr./Air Force)

HH-60W Jolly Green II connected with a HC-130J tanker for its first ever aerial refueling in August 2020.

HH-60W combat rescue helicopter

The Air Force wrapped up the latest round of tests on its new combat rescue helicopter Tuesday, moving the Sikorsky-built HH-60W Jolly Green II a step closer to full-time operations.

The last step of developmental testing checked whether the helicopter’s weapons worked in flight and were properly configured, the Air Force said in a release Thursday. HH-60Ws wield a 7.62 mm Gatling gun that fires 3,000 rounds per minute, a .50 caliber machine gun that can fire 1,100 rounds per minute, and a .50 caliber machine gun that can reach 800 rounds per minute.

Search-and-rescue forces will fly the Jolly Green II, named after the green Vietnam War-era rescue helicopters, into remote and dangerous areas to find downed airmen who could be in peril or need medical evacuation. It replaces the HH-60G Pave Hawk, an earlier version of the Army’s Black Hawk that the Air Force has flown since the 1980s.

Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, welcomed the Air Force’s first two new combat rescue helicopters in November.