A typical rate for aircraft of this type is 2.26, but the Sea Dragon variant of the Stallion had a rate of 5.96. The Sea Dragon in particular has the perilous job of aerial mine countermeasures ...

The MH-53E Sea Dragon is the U.S. Navy’s primary aerial mine countermeasures aircraft. A variant of the CH-53 Sea Stallion, the MH-53E is heavier and has a greater fuel capacity than its ancestor.

An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas ...

Sikorsky Books Potential $752M Navy Helicopter Support ... The award has a five-year base value of $676.7 million to cover logistics support for the CH-53E Super Stallion and the MH-53E Sea ...

The CH-53K King Stallion will get deployed from the East Coast sometime in 2026 with a Marine expeditionary unit, said Col. Kate Fleeger, the helicopter’s program manager, on Tuesday at the Navy ...

The U.S. Navy awarded defense contractor Sikorsky a $2.7 billion contract for the delivery of an additional 35 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters ...

In 2024 and beyond, the Corps plans to gain 16 additional King Stallion helicopters a year. The King Stallion is three times as powerful as its predecessor helicopter, the CH-53E Super Stallion.

HM-12 flew the MH-53E Sea Dragon 160633 “Dragon 437” to Titusville's Warbird Museum. Its the first of its kind to be displayed in a museum. On Oct. 16, 2024, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures ...

The King Stallion helicopter will replace the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion as the US Marine Corps’ heavy lifter. ... Speaking at the 2022 Navy League Sea-Air-Space conference last April, ...