The U.S. Army wanted to adapt the Black Hawk to carry a GMTI radar developed by Motorola, as this artist’s concept from the late 1970s illustrates.
Credit: Aviation Week Archive
Since its first flight in 1974, Sikorsky’s S-70/UH-60 Black Hawk has spawned dozens of variants and is as famous and ubiquitous as the aircraft it was designed to replace, Bell’s UH-1 Huey. Thousands of Black Hawks have served and continue to do so in a multitude of missions across the globe—from...
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