The American Black Hawk helicopter, which featured in one of many US military’s most disastrous counter-insurgency operations, in Somalia practically 30 years in the past, is to get replaced in a multibillion-dollar programme awarded this week.
Nineteen members of the US particular forces models Rangers and Delta Drive have been killed when two of the helicopters have been shot down over Mogadishu in October 1993, as depicted within the e book and movie Black Hawk Down.
Regardless of the catastrophe, the twin-engined UH-60 Black Hawk, constructed by Sikorsky, has been one of many US military’s most profitable and outstanding fight troop-carrying helicopters because the Nineteen Seventies.
The US military has used Black Hawk helicopters since 1979
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It served extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan and, alongside the twin-rotor Chinook, carried the particular forces groups who killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan,
