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SH-60 / HH-60H / MH-60 Seahawk
SH-60B Seahawk2.jpg
A U.S. Navy SH-60B landing on USS Abraham Lincoln.
Role Utility maritime helicopter
National origin United States
Manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft
First flight 12 December 1979
Introduction 1984
Status In service
Primary users United States Navy
Royal Australian Navy
Turkish Naval Forces
Spanish Navy
Produced 1979–present
Number built 938
Unit cost US$42.9 million (MH-60R in FY2012)
US$28.1M (MH-60S in FY2012)
Developed from Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Variants Sikorsky HH-60 Jayhawk
Mitsubishi SH-60

The Sikorsky SH-60/MH-60 Seahawk (or Sea Hawk) is a twin turboshaft engine, multi-mission United States Navy helicopter based on the United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk and a member of the Sikorsky S-70 family. The most significant modifications are the folding main rotor and a hinged tail to reduce its footprint aboard ships.

The U.S. Navy uses the H-60 airframe under the model designations SH-60B, SH-60F, HH-60H, MH-60R, and MH-60S. Able to deploy aboard any air-capable frigate, destroyer, cruiser, fast combat support ship, amphibious assault ship, Littoral combat ship or aircraft carrier, the Seahawk can handle anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), naval special warfare (NSW) insertion, search and rescue (SAR), combat search and rescue (CSAR), vertical replenishment (VERTREP), and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC).

Images for kids

  • MARSOC Helicopter exercise

    A Seahawk hovers during a simulated casualty evacuation as MARSOC operators carry a stretcher.

  • SH-60 Seahawk

    An HH-60H Seahawk deploying a SAR swimmer

  • MH-60R

    An MH-60R Seahawk conducts sonar operations.

  • US Navy 090414-F-4455C-004 An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter carries one of the 333 loads of cargo from the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) as the ship is anchored offshore near Port-Au-Prince

    An MH-60S lifting humanitarian supplies from the deck of USNS Comfort in Haiti 2010

  • MH-60S Sea Hawk cockpit (49971873362)

    US Navy technician inside an MH-60S cockpit

  • Defense.gov photo essay 110617-F-HS649-048

    MH-60S in East Timor

  • MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter prepares to land aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (cropped)

    A MH-60R prepares to land aboard USS John C. Stennis.

  • MH-60R Seahawk and Hellfire

    An MH-60R Seahawk firing a live Hellfire missile

  • First two RAN MH-60Rs before delivery

    The first two Australian MH-60Rs arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville shortly before being formally delivered to the Royal Australian Navy in December 2013

  • US Navy 040423-N-4190W-001 Search and Rescue Swimmer (SAR) members sit in a MH-60s Knighthawk helicopter during an vertical replenishment

    MH-60S empty cabin and sling load mechanism

  • 166563-MH-60R-1691

    View of front of MH-60R, 2010

  • Sikorsky S 70B-6 Aegean Hawk (cropped)

    A Hellenic Navy S-70B-6 Aegean Hawk

  • Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopter of Indian Navy

    MH-60R Seahawk helicopter of Indian Navy

  • SH-60J landing (modified)

    A JMSDF SH-60J lands on board USS Russell.

  • ROCN S-70C(M) Display in Chengkungling Oct2011

    Republic of China Navy S-70C(M) Thunderhawks

  • U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS STOCKDALE (DDG 106) conduct a helicopter in-flight refueling drill with an MH-60R Sea Hawk on the ship’s flight deck in the Persian Gulf

    A MH-60R of the US Navy

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