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Army Battalion Becomes First Unit Equipped With Latest Blackhawk Model

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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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Sikorsky [UTX] June 11 delivered the 30th UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter to the Army for the 4-101 Assault Battalion, making it the First Unit Equipped (FUE) with the aircraft. The new aircraft provide the Army with many enhancements critical to supporting its missions, including a new fully digitized cockpit with four multi-function displays, a four- axis fully coupled flight director, digital map, dual embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system, and an integrated vehicle health management system (IVHMS). The model also features…

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