Helicopters in a sentence

It has no air-to-air combat aircraft, but possesses Mil Mi-24 gunship helicopters, transport helicopters and aeroplanes, and reconnaissance helicopters and aeroplanes.

CCC and Bell Textron have successfully delivered several aircraft in South America, including four Bell 407 helicopters to the Colombia National Police and two Bell 412 helicopters to the Colombia Naval Aviation Group, through Canada’s G2G contracts.

The medical helicopters that frequently flew overhead terrified the family, provoking flashbacks to the helicopters that used to bomb and machine-gun the populace in Homs, Aldroubi said.

An AP photographer saw at least three helicopters, likely from the military, that landed inside the Assembly grounds, while two or three helicopters circled above the site.

They lost three helicopters during exfiltration, but all 16 helicopters were able to deliver their payloads to the defenders of Mariupol.

While helicopters are generally designed for one role, it is often cheaper to repurpose the same helicopter when operational needs change, which is why many of the helicopters that play a variety of roles tend to fill out this list.

A new Covid Aviation Task force was readied to deal with emergencies across the UK, including two RAF Chinook helicopters at RAF Odiham and two RAF Puma helicopters based in Kinross Barracks.

India agreed to buy advanced military equipment, including more than $3 billion for Seahawk helicopters made by Lockheed Martin and Apache attack helicopters made by Boeing.

Enemy small arms, automatic weapons, and mortar fire raked the landing zone, inflicting heavy damage to the helicopters; however, Major Kettles refused to depart until all helicopters were loaded to capacity.

While the Royal Navy will still have an anti-ship capability via the submarine fleet and embarked helicopters, this will still be a significant capability gap and even then, no Royal Navy helicopters will have anti-ship missile capabilities until 2020.

One of the ways Thailand has looked to fulfill those needs has been through the purchase of the H22M (formerly EC725) helicopters from Airbus Helicopters, following several of its fellow Southeast Asian neighbors including Indonesia and Malaysia.

They worked with Parks Canada to bring a pair of helicopters in from Peregrine Helicopters in Hinton.

During testing, six AH-64D helicopters were pitted against a numerically superior group of AH-64A helicopters; the results demonstrated the AH-64D to have a seven times increase in survivability and four times increase in lethality compared to the AH-64A.

Hill, p. 119 Westland Helicopters Black Arrow main Following its merger with Saunders Roe, Westland Helicopters developed the three-stage Black Arrow satellite carrier rocket, derived from the Black Knight test vehicle.

In 2009 two additional Mil Mi-17 helicopters have been ordered from Russia with further deals planned. citation India delivered HAL Dhruv helicopters and South Africa is about to deliver 12 Atlas Cheetah supersonic -aircraft.

The complement of aircraft carried by Minas Gerais included at one point six Grumman S-2E antisubmarine planes, in addition to several SH-3D Sea King helicopters and Aérospatiale Super Puma and HB-350 Esquilo helicopters.

A 10-year-old Australian boy who was critically injured two weeks ago when two helicopters collided, killing four people, had woken from a coma in hospital and held his father’s hand, a family priest said.

About 100 US troops in three MH-47 helicopters carried out the operation.

According to that update, firefighters didn’t have success with helicopters dropping water on the hangars and given its size couldn’t get close enough with ground units, so a decision was made to let the building burn.

A local near the scene of the crash said six helicopters landed on a vacant block of land nearby and set up triage.