中新网3月21日电 3月21日，美军一架CH-46型直升机在科威特境内坠毁，机上12名英国军人和4名美国军人全部死亡。这是怎样的一种飞机呢？ CH-46直升机是美国海军陆战队最主要的战斗攻击直升机之一，这种直升机外形有点像公共汽车，双螺旋桨，海军陆战队主要用 ...

While many are familiar with the U.S. Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter, the U.S. Marine Corps used a different model, the Boeing Vertol CH-46 "Phrog" Sea Knight, which it began ...

A Boeing CH-46 is seen in 2015, stored at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. (Matt York/AP) SANTIAGO, Chile — The Boeing ...

Israel’s Ministry of Defense on Feb. 25 selected the Sikorsky CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter over the Boeing CH-47F Block II to replace a fleet of 23 CH-53s. “The new helicopter is adapted to the ...

The U.S. Marine Corps' plan to buy a new derivative of its heavy-lift CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter would give the service double lift capability and range and cut operating costs in half, according ...

The CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter is an extremely versatile aircraft, but has suffered problems in the past. Last August, the US Navy and Marines grounded its entire fleet of 291 Sea Knights after ...

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A Marine helicopter that crashed last week northwest of Baghdad was shot down, the U.S. military announced Wednesday, contradicting earlier speculation that it had crashed due to mechanical problems.

The Vietnam-era CH-46 Sea Knight -- one of the military's most storied helicopters -- is older than most of the men who fly it today, and it is showing its age. The CH-46 has been beset in recent ...

The first of 14 newbuild CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopter for the Netherlands arrived in the country on 14 April, two weeks after being formally handed over at the manufacturer’s Philadelphia ...

US Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion in 2014. US Marine Corps Photo Four Marines were killed in a CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter crash near the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a ...

American soldiers conduct sling load operations with a CH-47 Chinook. Singapore announced in November 2016 that it was acquiring an unspecified number of CH-47Fs. (Maj. Carson Petry/U.S. Army) ...