REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – U.S. Military aviation specialists are ordering an unspecified variety of Boeing CH-47F Chinook multi-mission heavy-lift transport helicopters beneath phrases of a $497.1 million contract introduced in December.
Officers of the Military Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., are asking the Boeing Co. Protection, Area & Safety phase in Ridley Park, Pa., to supply the twin-rotor helicopters.
The CH-47F is a complicated multi-mission helicopter for the U.S. Military and worldwide protection forces. It comprises an built-in, digital cockpit administration avionics, widespread aviation structure cockpit, and superior cargo-handling.
The Chinook’s major mission is to maneuver troops, artillery, ammunition, gas, water, barrier supplies, provides, and tools on the battlefield. Its secondary missions embrace medical evacuation, catastrophe aid, search and rescue, plane restoration, fireplace combating, parachute drops, heavy building, and civil improvement.
The dual-rotor CH-47F Chinook is 52 ft lengthy, 12.4 ft large, practically 19 ft tall. It has two 60-foot-diameter rotors and has two Honeywell T55-GA-714A engines. The rotorcraft can raise 24,000 kilos, fly as quick as 170 knots at ranges to 200 nautical miles, and may fly as excessive as 20,000 ft.
With a crew of three, CH-47 helicopters can transport 44 seated troops or 24 wounded warfighters on stretchers. The plane can carry palletized cargo internally, together with the U.S. Military Humvee mild automobile, or sling-loaded exterior cargo, utilizing its triple cargo hooks for stability.
The CH-47’s triple-hook system stabilizes massive exterior masses just like the 155-millimeter howitzers, and may fly these masses at as quick as 140 knots. The helicopter can ship exterior masses like gas blivets to a few separate locations in a single sortie.
On this contract Boeing will do the work at places to be decided with every order, and ought to be completed by December 2025. For extra info contact Boeing Protection, Area & Safety on-line at www.boeing.com/firm/about-bds, or the Military Contracting Command-Redstone at https://acc.military.mil/contractingcenters/acc-rsa.