Armed BLACK HAWK® Helicopter

The Armed Black Hawk merges the lethality of an attack helicopter with the lift and flexibility of a utility platform, offering a single, proven airframe that can perform every medium category mission required for 21st Century Security®. It can be rapidly reconfigured for air mobile assault, close support fire, medical evacuation, ISR, and tactical air-lift.

Key features include:

• Modular armed kit (production ready now, upgradeable later) with a six-station weapons management suite: two 7.62 mm guns, a podded .50 CAL GP-19, a 19 rocket MEL pod, and optional precision missiles.
  
  
• Utility capability for up to 11 troops, external sling load cargo, medical evacuation stretchers, and ISR sensor packages.
  
  
• Cost advantage – lower acquisition price and reduced lifecycle expense versus comparable attack helicopters, delivering more missions per dollar.
  
  
• Robust, long-term support – crashworthy airframe, redundant systems, and a supply chain backed by U.S. Government support beyond 2070.

The platform is sold via Foreign Military Sales or Direct Commercial Sales with full parts, training, and logistics commonality to U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps UH-60. A single Lockheed Martin support team ensures seamless integration and sustainment for NATO allies and partner nations, with European-built S-70 airframes and close-support kits installed by PZL Mielec in Poland.