Details are still limited at this stage, but a search is on for a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that went missing late Tuesday night while flying from Nevada to California.
The helicopter was a CH-53E Super Stallion and it was carrying five Marines on board. Video from a 2023 US Marine air show shows CH-53E models flying. BBC Verify's Nick Eardley has taken a closer ...
The Marine Corps just executed the first ship-to-shore transportation by air of a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) using the CH-53E Super Stallion, one of the Marine Corps’ primary heavy-lift ...
The group was flying a "heavy lift" CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada to Marine Corps Air ...
Still, the King Stallion can haul three times more than the helicopter it's replacing, the CH-53E Super Stallion.
50 caliber machine guns Load: 37 troops or 24 litter patients plus four attendants or 8,000 pounds The CH-53D Sea Stallion is a medium lift helicopter ... three-engine CH-53E Super Stallion.
The CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest helicopter in the military and the Marines have used it for heavy-lifting duties around the world for more than three decades. More than 130 are in operation.
Load: 55 troops or 32,000 lbs. The MH-53E Sea Dragon is the U.S. Navy’s primary aerial mine countermeasures aircraft. A variant of the CH-53 Sea Stallion, the MH-53E is heavier and has a greater ...
All of the Marines were part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that went down was flying from Creech Air Force Base, northwest of Las Vegas, to Marine Corps Air ...