User Guide

7: SPECIFICATIONS
7.7
UH-60A/L Black Hawk (Sikorsky S-70A)
PUBLICATION
Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft
1995-96
SECTION
Aircraft – Rotary Wing – Military
COUNTRY
USA
COMPANY
Sikorsky
TITLE
Sikorsky S-70A
DESIGNATIONS
UH-60A, UH-60L and UH-60Q Black Hawk, AH-60L, EH-60A, MH-60A, MH-60K
and MH-60L (US Army); UH-60A, HH-60G, MH-60G Pave Hawk (US Air Force);
VH-60N (US Marine Corps); Yanshuf (Owl) (Israel Defence Force).
TYPE
Infantry squad transport helicopter; also adapted for other roles.
VARIANTS
UH-60A Black Hawk. Initial production version, designed to carry crew of three
and 11 troops; also can be used without modification for medevac, reconnais-
sance, command and control, and troop supply; cargo hook capacity 3630kg; one
UH-60A can be carried in C-130, two in C-141 and six in C-5.
Medevac kits delivered from 1981; missile qualification completed June 1987, with
day and night firing of Hellfire in various flight conditions; airborne target handover
system (ATHS) qualified; cockpit lighting suitable for night vision goggles fitted to
production UH-60s since November 1985 and retrofitted to those built earlier. Total
1,049 built for US Army (including 66 conversions to EH-60A) before production
change to UH-60L in 1989. Detailed description applies to UH-60A/L except where
indicated.
Enhanced Black Hawk. Incorporates active and passive self-defence systems;
retrofitted by Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas, to new build UH-60A/Ls; first 15
delivered to US Army in South Korea November 1989. Equipment includes Tracor
AN/ARN-148 Omega navigation receiver, Motorola AN/LST-5B satellite UHF
communications transceiver, Bendix/King AN/ARC-199 HF-SSB, and AEL
AN/APR-44(V)3 specific threat RWR complementing existing AN/APR-39 general
threat RWR; M134 Minigun can be fitted on each of two pintle mounts, replacing
M60 machine-gun.