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Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion largest and heaviest helicopter in us

armed forces

INTRODUCTION
The

Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest


helicopter in the United States military.

As the Sikorsky S-80 it was developed from the CH-53 Sea Stallion,
mainly by adding a third engine, adding a seventh blade to the main
rotor and canting the tail rotor 20 degrees.

It was built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Marine Corps.
The less common MH-53E Sea Dragon fills the United States Navy's

need for long range mine sweeping or Airborne Mine


Countermeasures (AMCM) missions, and perform heavy-lift duties
for the Navy.

DESIGN
The

fuselage is watertight and of light alloy, steel and


titanium construction.

The cockpit includes glass fibre and epoxy materials.


The seven-bladed main rotor is fitted with a Sikorsky
blade inspection system.

The

main rotor blades are of Nomex honeycomb


construction with a titanium spar and a composite glass
fibre and epoxy skin.

The rotor head is primarily titanium and steel.

COCKPIT
The CH-53E accommodates three crew.
The helicopter is equipped with a Hamilton

Sundstrand
automatic flight control system (AFCS), with two digital
flight control computers, a four-axis auto-pilot, an attitude
and heading reference system (AHRS), a Rockwell Collins
GPS 3A global positioning system and a Northrop
Grumman (Teledyne Ryan) AN/APN-217 Doppler radar.

The AHRS has been replaced with a new system from BAE
Systems.

ENGINE
The

CH-53E helicopters are powered by three General


Electric turbofan engines, type T64-GE-416 rated at
3,266kW.

The engine cowlings and transmission fairings are of Kevlar


construction.

Self-sealing bladder fuel tanks, each of 1,192l capacity, are


installed in the forward sections of the sponsons.

An internal two-cell fuel tank provides 1,465l of fuel.


Drop tanks, with total capacity 4,921l, can also be installed
externally to each sponson.

ELECTRIC WARFARE
The

Super Stallion is equipped with an ATK AN/AAR-47


missile warning system and chaff and flare dispensers.

An

initial six CH-53 helicopters of the German Armed Forces


are fitted with the EADS AN/AAR-60 MILDS missile warning
system, also fitted on the NH90 and Tiger helicopters.

In

June 2007, Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract to


equip the USMC CH-53E helicopters with the directional
infrared countermeasures system (DIRCM).

SPECIFICATIONS

Crew: 5: 2 pilots, 1 crew chief/right gunner, 1 left gunner

Payload: internal: 30,000 lb or 13,600 kg

Length: 99 ft 1/2 in (30.2 m)

Rotor diameter: 79 ft (24 m)

Height: 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)

Maximum speed: 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h)

Cruise speed: 150 kt (173 mph, 278 km/h)

Range: 540 nmi (621 mi, 1,000 km)

Ferry range: 990 nmi (1,139 mi, 1,833 km)

Service ceiling: 18,500 ft (5,640 m)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53E_Super_Stallion
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/ch53e/

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