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US Military's largest and most powerful heavy lift helicopter, the CH-53K King Stallion, is truly the king of the skies.

The Army has no plans to retire the CH-47 Chinook ... to changes in its center of gravity—a helpful feature for a heavy-lift helicopter flown with all different varieties of cargo.

The CH-47D Chinook is the U.S. Army’s primary heavy troop and supply transport aircraft. Originally fielded in the Vietnam War, the CH-47 has undergone a series up upgrades to increase lift and ...

1382 km The MH-47 Chinook and its “E,” “D” and “G” variants are the primary heavy lift transport helicopters for the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

The Mi-26 (NATO reporting name: Halo) heavy-lift helicopter furnished with the ... the Vitebsk defensive aids suite was transferred to military unit 15650 [the State Flight Testing Center of ...

GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--When a U.S. military helicopter crashed ... initially raised expectations involved a CH-53 heavy-lift transport helicopter that crashed shortly after 2 p.m. on ...

Russia and China signed a contract in November 2021 to jointly develop a heavy-lift helicopter (AHL). It was planned that the maximum take-off weight of the helicopter would be 38.2 tons ...