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can anyone tell me what kind of helicopter is this
https://pbs.twimg.com ^ | Nov 30 2023 | Beowulf9

Posted on 11/30/2023 10:23:50 AM PST by Beowulf9

Two of these passed over our house a few min ago. Very slowly and the motor sound was very loud. Obviously they were big.

I live near the Arizona National Guard Papago Park Military Reservation and so I'm sure it came from there. We do get some interesting craft from there overhead at times.

I'm just curious. What is it carrying? It looks like a bomb but I am guessing that it isn't. ?


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1 posted on 11/30/2023 10:23:50 AM PST by Beowulf9
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helicopter-3
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2 posted on 11/30/2023 10:25:23 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

First guess is an Apache.


3 posted on 11/30/2023 10:25:34 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beowulf9

Black Hawk


4 posted on 11/30/2023 10:26:18 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluiids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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Yeah, looks like a UH-60 Blackhawk.


5 posted on 11/30/2023 10:26:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Beowulf9

Clickbait without a doubt.


6 posted on 11/30/2023 10:26:49 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Secret Agent Man

BINGO. Not really too hard to identify with the weapons pods, engine pods, and general shape, even from behind.


7 posted on 11/30/2023 10:27:12 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: cpdiii

Apache. Blackhawk is much bigger.


8 posted on 11/30/2023 10:27:20 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Lol. No. It’s not clickbait. That is my own photo and I uploaded it to IMBB because I did not know how to get it on here.


9 posted on 11/30/2023 10:27:43 AM PST by Beowulf9
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That looks like an Apache attack helicopter.


10 posted on 11/30/2023 10:29:57 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Beowulf9

Make yourself usefull, my wife went out doing charity stuff and I’m in charge of the beans. How do you thinken them up?


11 posted on 11/30/2023 10:30:02 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Secret Agent Man

I looked up both Apache and Blackhawk and it does look more like an Apache which is an attack helicopter. Wow. I wonder where that is going? How involved are we in that war ‘over there’?


12 posted on 11/30/2023 10:30:47 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

What - make them smarter???


13 posted on 11/30/2023 10:31:46 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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+1

5.56mm


14 posted on 11/30/2023 10:31:47 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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Well, not sure. We still do training flights, pilots still need practice, and sometimes they fly to different places for non-war reasons.


15 posted on 11/30/2023 10:32:28 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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You're right. It does look like an Apache. The pod may be the laser targeting system.

https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/laser-apache-helicopter-tested-first-time/

16 posted on 11/30/2023 10:32:50 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Army “Apache” with a reserve fuel tank on the right side.

https://www.wallpaperup.com/uploads/wallpapers/2014/04/03/321963/1f0b5d709c0648baba95e31684fb578e.jpg

https://media.defense.gov/2017/Jan/31/2001692892/-1/-1/0/170113-F-RU983-0066.JPG


17 posted on 11/30/2023 10:32:52 AM PST by Drago
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Lol. I am useful. I am actually working but took a few min off for this.

I work next to my computer. I’m an artist, oil painter. I have a show in January in Phoenix. Working on the last painting for it. I heard the helicopters overhead, took a pic wondered what it was.


18 posted on 11/30/2023 10:33:01 AM PST by Beowulf9
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If its National Guard they definitely could be on a training flight.


19 posted on 11/30/2023 10:33:27 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beowulf9

I believe there is an Air Guard unit on your side of town that flies those.


20 posted on 11/30/2023 10:33:47 AM PST by KC Burke
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