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Do you know how to maintain the UH-60? 1st ‘V’ variant arrives in NATO-Germany!

02 July 2023 (12:40-UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Tir 1402/13 Dhu l-Hijja 1444/15 Ji-Wei 4721/02 июль 2023 года

U.S. Army photo by Samantha Treadway, 01JAN2023.

Every year, units from the Regular Army (active duty U.S. Army [USA]), Army Reserve, and National Guard, spend time on the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas, learning the latest in rotary wing aircraft maintenance.  This year, they are learning about the new ‘V’ variant of the old UH-60 Black Hawk, even though the ‘V’ upgrade program suffered setbacks.

The first UH-60V delivered to a U.S. unit overseas, on Wiesbaden Airfield, NATO-Germany, 04JUN2023. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Todd Strobel.

Despite the setbacks, by June 2023, upgraded UH-60Vs began to be deployed to bases in the European Union.  Northrop Grumman states that the ‘V’ upgrade replaces the old UH-60L cockpit “with a fully open, digital and integrated avionics suite”.

Kentucky Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Daniel S. Cooper gives the official explanation of why Ecuador currently has UH-60 Black Hawk maintenance crews in Kentucky. There is no mention of the recent Black Hawk crashes. Video interview by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 29JUN2023:

Video (by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane) of Ecuadorian UH-60 Black Hawk maintenance crews’ visit to Kentucky, 29JUN2023:

Some UH-60 (and other rotary wing aircraft) maintenance is performed at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, on Muir Army Airfield in Pennsylvania. Video by Erik Sandbakken, 05JUN2023:

JapanTimes, May 2023: Engine Problems Linked to Fatal Black Hawk Crash.

Georgia Army National Guard HH-60M gets a 40-hour preventive maintenance check on Inezgane Airfield, Morocco, during African Lion 2023. Photo by Sergeant Cameron Boyd, 31MAY2023.

The Defense Post, May 2023: The U.S. Army grounded all pilots not involved in critical missions until they complete required training, after four helicopters crashes.

‘Pumped’ UH-60 helicopter repairers with the Connecticut Army National Guard, tear into a hydraulic pilot assist module during a maintenance competition at the 1109th Theater Aviation Support Maintenance Group, Groton, Connecticut, 21APR2023. Photo by Sergeant Matthew Lucibello.

GAO (Government Accountability Office), April 2023: “Army and Air National Guard reported 298 helicopter accidents during non-combat flight operations from fiscal years 2012 through 2021…  …their respective flight safety training programs can be improved.”

Army Times, April 2023: Army investigators confirm collision led to double Black Hawk crash.

Military.com, April 2023: Renewed Scrutiny of Black Hawk Safety Record.

In March 2023, during wargame Cobra Gold, the Washington Army National Guard conducted joint UH-60 maintenance with the Royal Thai Army, in the Kingdom of Thailand.

Associated Press, February 2023: Black Hawk pilots killed in Alabama crash were experienced.

This is the Arizona Army National Guard’s Western Arizona Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, where they teach how to repair the UH-60L/M Black Hawk. Photo by Sergeant First Class Brian A. Barbour, 24FEB2023.

In 2022, using the ‘Pland-emic supply shortages’ as an excuse, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) began something called ‘additive manufacturing’.  Additive manufacturing is an industry phrase referring to the use of 3D printing to create your own parts. This December 2022 DLA video report (by Nutan Chada) is about creating 3D printed fuel elbows for the UH-60:

Assigned to the Texas Army National Guard on Camp Buehring, Kuwait, a Black Hawk maintainer from New York torques a nut on the pitch control rod of a UH-60M. Photo by Specialist Jason Lo, 06SEP2022.

Reuters, September 2022: Afghan government blames technical problem for fatal crash of U.S. made Black Hawk.

Bangkok Post, July 2022: Engine problems blamed for Royal Thai Army Black Hawk crash.

Gulf News, July 2022: 14 people dead after Mexican Navy Black Hawk crashes into airport.

The Salt Lake Tribune, February 2022: Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a “training accident” near the Mineral Basin area.

Vehicle I-D, 2022: IDAHO GETS NEW UH-60M

Government Shenanigans, 2020: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?

2017:  Missouri Army National Guard UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

Vehicle I-D: King of the Stallions stampedes Idaho!

At least 50 wild horses roam the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area. Photo via the BLM.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is always complaining about the wild Mustangs that roam across Idaho, but this new King of the Stallions actually flies!

U.S. Marine Corps graphic by Corporal Lauren Salmon.

During the month of August 2022, the U.S. Marine Corps conducted the first ever live-fire ‘wargame’ for its new CH-53K King Stallion, over the Saylor Creek bombing/gunnery range in South-Central Idaho.

USMC photo by Corporal Adam Henke, 11AUG2022.

Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 had the honors, and launched out of the U.S. Air Force’s Mountain Home Air Force Base, in Southwestern Idaho.  HMH-461 in based in North Carolina, they chose Idaho to test their new mount, because Idaho is geographically and climatically different from North Carolina.

USMC photo by Corporal Adam Henke, 17AUG2022.

USMC video, by Corporal Adam Henke, HMH-461 gets their King Stallion acquainted with the High Desert terrain of Idaho, 08AUG2022:

The USMC, and Lockheed-Sikorsky, claim the new-build CH-53K is more powerful, can fly higher, can stay airborne longer, is safer and easier to maintain than the older CH-53E Super Stallion.

USMC Corporal Adam Henke video of heavy lift operation, 17AUG2022:

In my opinion, the King Stallion is different enough that it should be considered its own helicopter family, apart from the CH-53 lineage.

USMC Corporal Adam Henke video of GAU-21 .50-cal ‘door-gunner’ live-fire, 17AUG2022:

USMC music video, by Corporal Adam Henke, of the first ‘exercise’ of the King Stallion, 30AUG2022:

March, 2021: CH-53K KING STALLION UPDATE

Weapon I-D, 2021: DOOR GUNNER .50 CAL

Idaho, Saylor Creek Range: 4TH TIME IS THE CHARM, IDAHO ‘HAWGSMOKES’ THE COMPETITION, AGAIN!

Idaho, OCTC: IDAHO INVADED BY APACHES FROM ARIZONA & SINGAPORE?

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: USAF SENDS 27 BLOCK-25 FALCONS TO THE BONEYARD!

Vehicle I-D:  SUKHOI-75, THE CHECKMATE, WILL THEY OR WON’T THEY?

JORDANIAN COBRAS الكوبرا الأردني, OR HOW TO REBUILD (and then sell) YOUR U.S. FUNDED AH-1S/F.

Cold War Helicopters: Dragon crashes into Antarctic Ocean

During the United States’ Operation Highjump (aka Project Highjump), in 1946-47, a Sikorsky HO3S-1 helicopter (called Dragonfly by the British) crashed into the Antarctic Ocean (aka Southern Ocean).

The silent color film, by U.S. Army Private E. Zinberg, dated 19JAN1947, shows the Dragonfly approaching USS Pine Island (AV-12), the film cuts out for a second then shows the Sikorsky diving into the water. The pilot, and the observer, are rescued:

There is an attempt to salvage the helicopter, but the order is given to let the Dragonfly go:

This crash happened about a week after the rescue of the crew, and passenger, of a U.S. Navy PBM-5 Mariner, code named George 1, which had been missing since 30DEC1946.  The search was frantic, not just because nobody knew what happened, but the commanding officer of the USS Pine Island was onboard the missing seaplane.  The crew and VIP (very important person) passenger that survived (three crewmembers died) the crash of George 1, were rescued on 12JAN1947.

According to Peter J. Anderson, who worked for the Office of Polar Programs-National Science Foundation, a total of seven helicopters were used during Operation Highjump.  On 19JAN1947, H03S-1 helicopter (Bureau Number [BuNo] 57996) was sent to find pack-ice that could launch aircraft for a photographic mission, ordered by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.  The HO3S-1 returned early due to icing of the rotary wings.  Ironically, just feet from the deck of USS Pine Island, the icing suddenly became worse causing to HO3S-1 to drop straight into the ocean.  Just three days later, a second HO3S-1 was lost.  BuNo 579997 was launched from the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea, it was hit by a downdraft and shoved into the ocean, the crew was rescued.

The two HO3S-1 helicopters were two of the four aircraft lost during Operation Highjump.

Cold War Helicopters:

USAF photo.

SIKORSKY DRAGONFLY (WS-51 or R-5 or H-5/SH-5 or HO3S-1)

KAMOV 25 ‘HORMONE’

U.S. Disaster 2022: Just in time for Hurricane Season, West Virginia gets new Black Hawk MedEvac

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

On 12APR2022, West Virginia Army National Guard’s 2/104th General Support Aviation Battalion, Aeromedical Evacuation Company, received its first of six new HH-60 ‘M’ version Black Hawk ambulance helicopters.

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

West Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

West Virginia National Guard’s Company C, 2-104thWest Virginia Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 12APR2022.

Vehicle I-D, 2022: IDAHO GETS NEW UH-60M

Vehicle I-D, 2016: NEW HH-60M BLACK HAWK FOR HAWAIIAN MILITIA MEDEVAC

Disaster 2022: HURRICANE HUNTERS GOING ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’

Rescues:

NATIONAL GUARD TEACHING A BABY THREE HORNED DINOSAUR TO FLY?

Disaster 2021: Idaho Militia & Boise FD train for swift water rescues, without water!

Idaho National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

On 02NOV2021, just days before the Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade deployed for Kuwait, the Idaho Army National Guard teamed up with the City of Boise Fire Department to conduct swift water rescue training (specifically; hoisting victims out of the water), without water (Idaho has been in a long drought you know) for the first time!

UH-72 Lakota. Idaho National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

UH-60 Black Hawk. ING photo by Thomas Alvarez.

On one corner of Gowen Field/Boise Airport (the air assault strip), militia personnel and Boise fire fighters gathered to conduct their waterless water rescue training.  They used the latest in hi-tech equipment; UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, UH-72 Lakota helicopter, and a pickup truck pulling a trailer!

Mark-1 Swift Water Simulator. ING photo by Thomas Alvarez.

UH-60 Black Hawk and hi-tech Mark-1 Swift Water Simulator. Idaho National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Before pulling an actual human to ‘safety’ from a moving vehicle, they practiced with sandbags.  This also helped determine a safe speed to drive the truck-trailer combo.

One by one they boarded the impromptu training device. ING photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Believe it or not, they actually referred to the fire-fighter playing the victim as the “simulated victim”! Maybe they should patent their hi-tech invention as the Mark-1 Swift Water Simulator?

Even two at a time. ING photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Several hoists were made using the UH-72. ING photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Ianhunter Thorpe.

Several hoists were made using the UH-60. ING photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Ianhunter Thorpe.

Disaster 2021: VERMONT & CONNECTICUT VALKYRIE FIGHT FIRES IN KOSOVO!

U.S. Wildfire 2021: IDAHO UPDATE, 15 AUGUST

Disaster 2018: IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS, using UH-60 Black Hawk!

IDAHO AIR MILITIA PREPS CIVILIANS FOR NATURAL DISASTER, using UH-72 Lakota!

IDAHO MILITIA PROVIDES ITS OWN CELL PHONE SERVICE, TO SURVIVE COMING NATURAL DISASTER?

Biden’s War, November 2021: ‘REBELLIOUS’ SNAKE RIVER (IDAHO, OREGON) DEPLOYS! POLITICIAN BEGS IDAHOANS TO RESIST THE WILL OF BIDEN!

World War 3: IDAHO TRAINS KOREAN ANTI-NUCLEAR COMBAT TEAMS!

Vietnam era SkyCrane recovers WW2 era Flying Boat

Alaska Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

In Gregorian year 1987, an Alaskan Army National Guard Sikorsky CH-54B Tahre (aka Skycrane) was used to recover a World War Two era (built in 1943) OA-10 PBY Catalina, which had been abandoned on Dago Lake in 1947, and sold as scrap for a whopping $58!

AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

The Canadian Vickers built Catalina was abandoned due to engine problems. While rotting near Dago Lake it got the nickname Queen of Dago Lake, while Dago Lake got the nickname PBY Lake.  In the 1980s, the members of the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum decided to fund a recovery operation with the help of the Army National Guard. The original hope was to restore the flying boat to operational condition.

Sling load gear was flown-in by UH-1 Iroquois (Huey). AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

Two moves by helicopter were made in 1984 and 1987.

AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

The first try failed after a strap broke, forcing the Catalina to be abandoned again, this time on Lake Clark Pass.

AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

The photos in this article are from the 1987 move.

Crane operator viewpoint, note the stabilizing drogue chute streaming from the tail of the Catalina. AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

Skycrane named Penelope flies off with the OA-10. AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

Flying high! AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

Penelope delivers the goods. AANG photo by Sergeant Kevin L. Bishop.

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum video from 2020, revealing that the Catalina is still languishing. About seven minutes into the video you can see it is actually being used as an awning for benches for tourists:

Click here to listen to Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum audio narrative of the sage of Queen of Dago Lake.

Read more about Queen of Dago Lake: PBY Recovery

How a World War II seaplane earned the title ‘Queen of Dago Lake’

East Idaho Wildfires, 2012: MAINTENANCE DAY FOR SKYCRANE FIRE FIGHTER @ POCATELLO AIRPORT

Vehicle I-D:

USAF photo.

SIKORSKY DRAGONFLY

August 2020: AFTER 75 YEARS THE WAR IS STILL OVER!

Vehicle I-D: CH-53K King Stallion update

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Yuritzy Gomez.

Video by Lance Corporal Elias E. Pimentel the Third, CH-53K crew shows off for some Commandant of the Marine Corps guy during his visit to Camp Davis, North Carolina, 17MAR2021:

USMC photo by Sergeant Kathryn Adams.

Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David H. Berger, flies a CH-53K simulator aboard Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River in North Carolina, 17MAR2021, prior to taking a ride in the real thing over Marine Corps Outlying Field (MCOF) Camp Davis.

USMC photo by Sergeant Kathryn Adams.

USMC photo by Sergeant Kathryn Adams.

The 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David H. Berger, and 19th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Troy E. Black, ride in a CH-53K with VMX-1 Commanding Officer Col Byron D. Sullivan, flying over MCAS New River-MCOF Camp Davis, 17MAR2021.

USMC photo by Corporal Damaris Arias.

Heavy lift testing at MCOF Camp Davis, 03FEB2021.  In the photo the King Stallion is lifting a 4-thousand pound (1814 Kg) block of concrete.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher O’Quin.

On 15JAN2021, King Stallion made its first flight from MCAS New River after having been solely maintained and brought to readiness by U.S. Marine personnel.

Video by Lance Corporal Chelsi Woodman, 100% USMC personnel CH-53K flight prep and hover over MCAS New River, 15JAN2021:

U.S. Navy photo.

KC-130J refuels the CH-53K during ‘refueling wake testing’, 06APR2020.

Silent U.S. Navy video of refueling tests over the Chesapeake Bay, 06APR2020:

USN photo.

CH-53K ‘justification’ video from 2019:

 

Vehicle I-D, 2018: THE NEW CH-53K KING STALLION

Government Shenanigans: UH-60 for Afghanistan, killed-off by the Mil 17, U.S. taxpayers raped twice?

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U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sean Martin, 05NOV2017.

Begun under the Barack Obama administration, the UH-60A program for Afghanistan is now drastically scaled back under the Donald Trump administration, due to lack of the Black Hawk’s performance in Afghanistan, a shift in priorities within the U.S. Department of Defense, and the high cost to U.S. taxpayers.

A former U.S. Army Black Hawk is loaded onto a C-17 transport, bound for Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Adriane Elliot, 15SEP2017.

September 2017, the first batch of UH-60As for Afghanistan are unloaded from a C-17 Globemaster-3, at Kandahar Air Field.

 

Photo by Staff Sergeant Trevor McBride.

Video by Senior Airmen Ryan Green, UH-60A flight training, November 2017:

By December 2017, a small group of six Afghan Mil 17 pilots became qualified to fly the UH-60A+.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Jared Duhon.

By February 2018, the Afghan Air Force had eight UH-60 Blackhawks.

By March 2018, U.S. military officials were boasting the UH-60 program was “mission ready”.  Video of more flight training by John Roberts:

USA photo by Major Richard Barker, 06MAY2018.

By May 2018, the first large class of Afghan UH-60A crews had completed the Mission Qualification Course (MQC).   Video by Jackie Faye showing Afghan UH-60s taking off on their first official mission one day after the MQC graduation:

In June 2018,  The U.S. Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) criticized the UH-60 program for Afghanistan saying “They are unable to accommodate some of the larger cargo items the Mi-17s can carry, and in general, it takes almost two Black Hawks to carry the load of a single Mi-17. Furthermore, unlike Mi-17s, Black Hawks cannot fly at high elevations and, as such, cannot operate in remote regions of Afghanistan where Mi-17s operate.”

A Train, Advise and Assist Command-Air (TAAC-Air) explainer video by Staff  Sergeant Rion Ehrman, with overly dramatic music, July 2018:

Photo by Sergeant Luke Hoogendam.

July 2018 MedEvac (medical evacuation) training, now known as CasEvac (casualty evacuation).

Photo by Staff Sergeant Clayton Cupit.

By December 2018, U.S. TAAC-Air contractors continued to train Afghan personnel on the UH-60A.

In February 2019, SIGAR warned that the $7-billion U.S. taxpayer funded program to replace Afghanistan’s Russian built helicopters with U.S. made helicopters (first proposed in 2014, mainly using the UH-60A+) was flawed because “DOD does not currently have a maintenance training course in place to train Afghan personnel to maintain UH-60s. Having insufficient Afghan maintenance personnel limits the locations at which UH-60s can operate because DOD policy bars U.S. contractors from working where there is no U.S. or Coalition control due to security concerns.”

Another former USA UH-60 Black Hawk bound for Afghanistan, this time on 25APR2019, transported by Ukrainian An-124 transport. USA photo by Richard Bumgardner.

In January 2020, the Military Times reported “The U.S. military is reducing the number of UH-60 Black Hawks it plans to provide Afghan forces from 159 to just 53…..”, ostensibly because the U.S. Department of Defense no longer considers Afghanistan a priority.

September 2020, the Financial Express explains the reasons why ‘Afghan Military to stick to Russian-made Helocraft’, saying the Obama era program to rely mainly on UH-60s to replace proven Russian technology was “primarily driven by political concern”.

Don’t worry all you happy U.S. taxpayers, you paid for those Russian made ‘Hip’ helicopters as well, to the tune of $15-million each!

Zombie ‘Copter:   HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN (with the help of U.S./NATO), AND WHY IT WON’T DIE

Afghanistan:   MIL 17 CRASH & BURN

 MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

  MD-530 Cayuse Warrior

Knighthawks fight to save LHD 6!

News reports said the fire was inside the ship, for an indication of how big the fire was this pic (by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Austin Haist) clearly shows flames jetting from the island superstructure.

On the morning of 12JUL2020 a fire broke out inside amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego.  LHD 6 had been in San Diego, California, since 2018 for a major refit.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Kory Alsberry, 14JUL2020.

Flight crews with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 3 used their MH-60S Knighthawks to work around the clock as an airborne bucket brigade, trying to contain the fire.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Christina Ross, 13JUL2020.

USN photo by Lieutenant Joseph Kendrick, 13JUL2020.

USN photo by Lieutenant Joseph Kendrick, 13JUL2020.

Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Benjamin Kittleson, 13JUL2020:

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Patrick W. Menah Junior, 13JUL2020.

Video by Lieutenant Joseph Pfaff, 13JUL2020:

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin Leitner, 13JUL2020:

While boats and groundcrews focused on shooting water to the inside of the ship, the Knighthawks focused most of their drops on the burning island superstructure.  Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jasen MorenoGarcia:

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Patrick W. Menah Junior, 14JUL2020.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Patrick W. Menah Junior, 14JUL2020.

Night video, by Seaman Zachary Pearson, of Knighthawk water drop on deck surrounding the island superstructure, 15 July:

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Garrett LaBarge, 14JUL2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Julio Rivera, 15JUL2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Julio Rivera, 15JUL2020.

On 16 July, firecrews were evacuated from LHD 6 due the ship listing.  The list is blamed on all the water pumped into the ship.

 

Vehicle I-D: WASH YOUR HAWK!

Helicopters: Egypt مصر

Mil 24V (Mi-35), January 2020.  Apparently purchased from Ukraine.

Egyptian Ministry of Defense promotional video in which you can see AH-64 Apaches, Kamov 52 Nile Crocodile, Hips, Gazelles, Super Sea Sprites, CH-47 Chinooks and Mi-35 Hinds:

Ka-52 Nile Crocodile.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Justin Warren.

Egyptian and Jordanian soldiers secure an urban training area after repelling out of an Egyptian Commando (Sea King), U.S. led Exercise Bright Star, September 2018.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Dawn M. Weber.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer.

A ‘hip’ Egyptian helicopter (Mil 17V-5) conducting med-evac (medical evacuation) training during Bright Star 2018.

USA photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Tom Gagnier.

Mi-17 V5 from Bright Star 2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jonathan Clay.

Egyptian navy Kaman Super Sea Sprite lands on USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) during exercise Eagle Salute, July 2018.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jonathan Clay/Released)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

Egyptian Civil Police Gazelles get training in anti-tank operations, U.S. led Exercise Bright Star, September 2017.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

Video, Egyptian Gazelles, 2017:

Photo via U.S. Navy.

This is a VH-3A Sea King ‘presidential helicopter’ after rebuild in the United States in 2009.  This helicopter was originally given to Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat in 1974, by the U.S. taxpayers (presented by U.S. President Richard Nixon).

Egyptian SH-3 Sea King during Bright Star 82, November 1981.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, showing Sea King during the first Bright Star 81 (for fiscal year 1981) wargame, November 1980:

Quick video, Hip and Gazelles from Bright Star 2009:

Egyptian Mi-8 Hip during multi-national wargame Bright Star, October 2001. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Cherie A. Thurlby.

Wargame Bright Star 82, a USAF C-5A Galaxy about to touch-down in Egypt, an Mi-8 is parked in the foreground, November 1981.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, showing Mi-8 Hips during the first Bright Star 81 (for fiscal year 1981) wargame, November 1980:

May 2020: 126 rebels killed in Sinai

April 2020: 10 Egyptian soldiers killed

February 2020: Egypt’s military is now the 9th strongest in the world

September 2019: Israeli news media accuses Egyptian military of profit-making off Sinai rebellion

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI HUEY

MIL 17 CRASH & BURN

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT