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“Currently, the representatives of the Vanaginiai family from the Falconry Squad Vištvanagis and Paukštvanagis live in Lithuania. Both feed on small and large wild birds, sometimes hunting small mammals. As they migrate, they capture and hunt poultry.
Summing up this short paragraph, it can be said that hawks are universal raptors because they hunt human-raised poultry both in the air and on the ground, and in the natural environment for themselves and in a strange environment.
It is possible that this characteristic of the hawks led Adolfas Ramanauskas, one of the most famous Lithuanian partisan commanders, to choose Vanaga as his nickname ”, the Ministry of National Defense begins the announcement about Black Hawk.
According to her, the UH-60 Black Hawk is currently operated in Australia, Brazil, Jordan, Qatar, China, Colombia, Iraq, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United States. United. The Czech Republic, Latvia and Tunisia are already in the recruitment process.
The UH-60M Black Hawk is a medium-size helicopter designed and manufactured by Sikorsky Lockheed Martin to meet all the needs of the United States and foreign countries and various types of troops.
The UH-60M (Maik version) is the latest upgraded version of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. It can be mentioned that the UH-60 Black Hawk is available in many different versions UH-60A, UH-60L, SH-60B, SH-60F, HH-60H, MH-60R, MH-60S, EH-60, MH- 60.
Its first modification changed when the helicopter, which was put into operation already in 1979, was modernized, updated and digitized, and also adapted to the tasks. Thus, for example, the KJP and the US SOP had their own versions and separate helicopter models were used for electronic combat or medical evacuation.
Who are they for
Briefly about the features of the UH-60M: it has the ability to prepare for a variety of missions and tasks, advanced digital avionics, and a powerful power plant system. The helicopter can be used for tactical transport, search and rescue tasks in combat conditions, command and control, parachute landings, infiltration or withdrawal of troops, medical evacuation, air support, routine search and rescue operations and fire fighting.
The helicopter has an improved situation assessment and warning system and better survivability than previous models.
The UH-60M Black Hawk has two General Electric T700-GE-701D jacketed engines. Each engine generates a maximum lift of 2,974 kW. One motor is enough for a helicopter to hang in the air. The power plant system also consists of an additional electrical unit, a gearbox, and four composite blades.
There are also two 360-gallon drop-down, self-sealing fuel tanks. The UH-60M flies at a maximum cruising speed of 280 km / h and can fly 511 km without refueling. distance. Maximum load weight about 3630kg, maximum total lifting weight 10660kg.
Has propeller brake
The crew consists of 3 or 4 soldiers, it can transport up to 11 soldiers with equipment, a fully prepared and equipped military unit. One of the most interesting technical features of a helicopter is that it has a carrier propeller brake.
Often the rotating blades of a helicopter ready to take off on the ground cause many inconveniences, cause extremely strong wind currents, carry dust, take care of yourself and protect others both when entering and leaving the plane, difficulty in loading or unloading cargo, injuries .
Photo by V. Džiavečka / Purchase of Lithuania – Black Hawk
The UH-60M can start the engines and prepare for flight by applying the propeller brake; Although the engines will be fully operational, the blades will not turn. Only when it is fully loaded, secured and indicated that the flight is ready, will the commander begin to turn the blades and the helicopter will take off in just a few minutes.
USA SP 2019 January. more than 730 units are used to support combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. UH-60M helicopter.
“This is an aircraft that has already been practically tested, hardened and perfected on the job. This is how such a hawk will start serving in the Lithuanian army and help perform tasks for the soldiers of our various forces, ”the ministry writes.
To learn to control helicopters, soldiers will fly to the United States
2020 In February, the commander of the Lithuanian Air Force, Colonel. Dainius Guzas and his accompanying delegation of LTO soldiers visited the United States, where he attended a meeting with representatives of the Pennsylvania National Guard. In order to seamlessly integrate and properly prepare for the operation of the newly acquired helicopters, the meeting discussed possible cooperation between the Lithuanian Air Force and the US Pennsylvania National Guard and training opportunities for other members. of staff.
During the meeting, the maintenance concept of the UH-60M helicopter and the structure of the maintenance organization were presented. During the presentation, the minimum number of specialists and their qualification requirements necessary to ensure proper acceptance and operation of the helicopters were identified.
Information was received on technical staff maintenance courses and specializations (duration of courses, required level of English, and staff experience). At the suggestion of representatives, in order to train the required number of staff on time, the first group of 9 to 12 people should be sent to educational institutions located in Pennsylvania or Arizona starting in 2022.
Photo by KOP and V. Džiavečka / Visit of Lithuanian representatives to the USA
The duration of the training will depend on the qualifications of the staff. The basic pilot reconversion course will last 8 weeks, the training of a pilot-instructor will take place for another eight weeks and the reconversion of a pilot who can perform technical flights will take an additional nine weeks.
During the meeting, representatives of the Lithuanian Air Force visited the training center of the training center, where they had the opportunity to test the 3D simulator UH-60M, which meets the latest requirements, and a procedure simulator, indispensable for the pilot training and maintenance of qualification. With its help, pilots have the opportunity to master the control of aircraft equipment before automation.
The specialists at the training center assured that, if necessary, it would be possible to train shooters on board and team leaders (team leader, which is the equivalent of the current on-board technician-operator). Training for these specialists would take 7-10 weeks depending on the qualifications available.
In total, the eight-week basic training course consists of about 10 days of theoretical training, about 18 hours of flight in a simulator and about 23 hours of practical flight in visual and complex weather conditions, day and night.
Following the COVID19 crisis, representatives from the US Pennsylvania National Guard are scheduled to arrive in Lithuania. They would like to inspect the existing infrastructure of the LSC LTO in order to provide even more precise advice and more specific assistance in the smooth acquisition, integration and preparation for use of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters.
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