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Lockheed Martin's CH-148 Cyclone helicopter and some of its features
Lockheed Martin's CH-148 Cyclone helicopter and some of its features
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and Canada’s Department of National Defence, lead a team that has designed, built and configured the CH-148 Cyclone for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), maritime search and rescue (SAR), overland operations and utility missions. It got entry into service, on this planet Earth, with the Royal Canadian Air Force occurred mid-2018 aboard one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigates. As Canada’s first true intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) helicopter, the fly-by-wire Cyclone is equipped with a fully integrated mission system, modern sensors and a multi-mission cabin, providing a quantum leap in maritime helicopter capability. The fully-integrated mission management system developed by General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada presents a tactical map of sea and subsurface domains to the crew of four, enabling Cyclone to operate independently of its host ship. As a full-authority fly-by-wire variant of Sikorsky’s successful S-92 helicopter, the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter provides exceptional flight handling, and is uniquely qualified to operate aboard Halifax class ships in Sea State 6 conditions.

This type of helicopter has following features: fully integrated mission systems and sensors: featuring multi-mode radar, HELRAS dipping sonar, ESM/Radar Warning Receiver, Aircraft Survivability Suite, dual torpedoes; fly-by-wire controls enable exceptional handling qualities, folding tail and main rotors, C-RAST deck handling system demonstrated to Sea State 6, CT7-8A7 marinized engines, shipboard maintainable, helicopter in-flight refueling; dual station tactical console with ASW/ASuW full mission suite; or 22 passengers (utility configuration), or multiple medical litters; significant increase in useable cabin space, mission performance and speed compared to the CH-124 Sea King; Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW): 29,300 lb (13.3 t) — 2,800 lb (1.3 t) more than the civil S-92A; designed to lift 7,000 pounds on the cargo hook. The Canadian government approved initial operational capability of the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter in June 2018. After supporting Canada for 55 years in anti-submarine warfare and maritime search and rescue missions, the CH-124 Sea King helicopter retired in December 2018, or at least all that is said above it's said on Lockheed Martin's website.

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