Short Range Recovery Helicopter
Characteristics:
Number Planned: 102
Length: 38 feet. 2 inches
Rotor Diameter: 39 feet 2inches
Height: 13 feet 3inches
Maximum Weight: 9,480 pounds
Speed: 160 knots
Range: 150 nautical miles
Endurance: Three hours
Crew: Four
Once fully upgraded, the Coast Guard’s HH-65s will be redesignated as the Short Range Recovery Helicopter and will perform search and rescue, law enforcement and homeland security missions.
Features
- Re-engining effort that provides 40 percent more power and higher performance
- The SRR will feature:
- enhanced command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) equipment
- improved vertical insertion and vertical delivery capability - the ability to deliver a 3-person interagency counter-terrorism or response team 50NM from a US shore or a Coast Guard flight deck equipped cutter
- enhanced radar and electro-optical/infrared sensors will allow Common Operational Picture/Maritime Domain Awareness data exchange capability
- capability to be deployed from flight deck equipped cutter - allows Commanding Officer of a ship to utilize the air asset to investigate, classify and identify a threat and provide targeted location
- airborne use of force package (in common with that of the modernized HH-60T) will provide the capability to fire warning and disabling shots from the air
- chem-bio & radiological environmental
hazard detection and defense
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Last Modified 4/20/2012