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(Photo : David Monniaux/wikipedia) The developers of the USAF HH-60W, Jolly Green II helicopter, have completed checking the systems that are crucial to the medium-lift chopper. USAF HH-60W gets new weapons According to Sikorsky and a U.S. Air Force (USAF) test team who will be checking the relevant weapon systems at the Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida, reported Airforce Technology. Enhancing the weapon system configurations improve the offensive and defensive capabilities. The 413th Flight Test Squadron, flight chief Joe Whiteaker stated the HH-60W Integrated Research Team's successfu...

USAF’s HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter completes developmental tests 16 April 2021 (Last Updated April 16th, 2021 13:31) A joint Sikorsky and US Air Force (USAF) test team has completed the developmental test programme of the new HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter. A 413th Flight Test Squadron HH-60W Pave Hawk hangs in the anechoic chamber at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems hangar. Credit: USAF / Samuel King Jr. Share Article A joint Sikorsky and US Air Force (USAF) test team has completed the developmental te...

By Samuel King Jr. / Published April 15, 2021 A 413th Flight Test Squadron HH-60W Pave Hawk hangs in the anechoic chamber at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems hangar, Jan. 6, 2020, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The J-PRIMES anechoic chamber is a room designed to stop internal reflections of electromagnetic waves, as well as insulate from external sources of electromagnetic noise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.) An HH-60W Jolly Green II sits in a frozen chamber in the McKinley Climatic Lab, March 19, 2020, at Eglin Air Force Base, F...

The final test by the Sikorsky and Air Force team was on the aircraft’s weapon systems. The goal of the test was to both demonstrate the performance of the weapons while optimizing weapon-system configurations. “The timely completion of this test program represents an amazing accomplishment by the HH-60W Integrated Test Team,” said Joe Whiteaker, the 413th Flight Test Squadron HH-60W flight chief. “The team consistently overcame tremendous adversity through a mix of innovation and sheer determination.” The result of those labors ensured both the warfighter and the program’s decisi...

By Samuel King Jr. / Published April 15, 2021 A 413th Flight Test Squadron HH-60W Pave Hawk hangs in the anechoic chamber at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems hangar, Jan. 6, 2020, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The J-PRIMES anechoic chamber is a room designed to stop internal reflections of electromagnetic waves, as well as insulate from external sources of electromagnetic noise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.) An HH-60W Jolly Green II sits in a frozen chamber in the McKinley Climatic Lab, March 19, 2020, at Eglin Air Force Base, F...