Not your (grand)father's Huey
New "Huey" UH-1V now ready for deployment
Yea, this helicopter has sort of been around for awhile. It’s 2008 and a helicopter design first laid out nearly 50 years ago is still going strong in the service, especially with the updates to the UH-1Y variant that met ‘Initial Operating Capability ’ standards last week. Originally these were going to be updated versions of existing helicopters, but after trying that out the Marines decided to build these new choppers from the ground up.
The first helicopters will go out with the fleet early next year with with the 13th MEU aboard the USS Boxer.
Sadly, I haven’t seen one of these in person yet, despite them being tested at PAX river. Should one fly by the house I’ll try to snap a picture.
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hey I was kinda wondering if you have herd anything about the huge navel forces growing in mid-east the numbers of ships is around 40 and not just American German Italian French and Canadian. there are 2 light carriers and 3 super carriers being deployed or already there. and in an article i read on 3 sites it states the U.S. Congress passed a blockade bill for Iran. Are we beating the war drums is Bush going to make his move before elections???
i got “some” info from Debkafile
hey I was kinda wondering if you have herd anything about the huge navel forces growing in mid-east the numbers of ships is around 40 and not just American German Italian French and Canadian. there are 2 light carriers and 3 super carriers being deployed or already there. and in an article i read on 3 sites it states the U.S. Congress passed a blockade bill for Iran. Are we beating the war drums is Bush going to make his move before elections???
i got “some” info from Debkafile