Members of the H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters Program Office, known as PMA-261, have collaborated with experts at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and Sikorsky to identify a replacement for ...

Without a single trace of modesty, the American military calls the CH-53K King Stallion the most powerful heavy-lift helicopter in its arsenal. Born in the stables of helicopter maker Sikorsky back in ...

The CH-47F Chinook, left, and the CH-53K King Stallion, right. (Cpl. Nathan Reyes/U.S. Marine Corps; Lance Cpl. Shannon Doherty/U.S. Marine Corps) On Dec. 18, Bloomberg reported that Pentagon ...

CH-53K, K3, Piloted by Mr. Rob Pupalaikis and Maj Foxton, Flies an Aerial Refueling test with an External load on 28 Sep 2020 from NAS Patuxent River, MD. Sikorsky Photo. This post has been updated to ...

The CH-53K King Stallion boasts an external load capacity of up to 27,000 pounds at up to 110 nm while operating at high altitudes and in hot environments. [Courtesy: U.S. Department of ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has secured a $10.86 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to produce up to 99 CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters for the Marine Corps over the next five ...