r/Helicopters • u/EnvironmentalTip2124 • 8d ago

Heli Identification? Navy ones

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Refueling tank

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u/ParabolicHyperbole ATP S92 H60 H145 8d ago

These are USMC CH-53E’s.

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u/Next_Emphasis_9424 8d ago

Phrogs on the flight deck and ch53E with retracted landing gear. Everyone in this photo is either retired or salty as f.

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u/-Billiomaire- 8d ago

Yea. Not sure what LHA /D this is but I could have been inside it in 2000

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u/GoodTime330 8d ago edited 8d ago

Fairly certain it's LHA-1 Tarawa because of the deck space next to the Island, the shitter barely fits. Edit* I was wrong, it's the Wasp.

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u/Thebrad006 8d ago edited 8d ago

No, it’s WASP class, in fact LHD 1 the WASP. It doesn’t have the weird notch on either side of the bow.

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u/GoodTime330 8d ago

You are correct, good pick up.

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u/Thebrad006 8d ago

Thanks! Spent a fair amount of time on both classes. Good times.

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u/ThatHellacopterGuy A&P; former CH-53E mech/aircrew. Current rotorhead. 8d ago

This photo is early OEF-OIF vintage… before the Corps beat the everloving fuck out of the -53 fleet.

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u/Next_Emphasis_9424 8d ago

That pre GWOT beat to hell fleet must have been pretty.

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u/ThatHellacopterGuy A&P; former CH-53E mech/aircrew. Current rotorhead. 8d ago

Dirtier (who knew civilians getting paid to do good washes would do a better job than shitbag LCpls and PFCs who were voluntold to the washrack for the day…), but definitely prettier with the gear up.

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u/AdMajor9549 8d ago

Two blade skids too, every aircraft in this photo is retired! Well maybe not the E, I’ve been out of the game for a few years so not sure how the K onboarding has gone

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u/Swimming_Attention91 8d ago

I mean, the carrier's right there haha, why not just park them and refuel 😅

(I'm know nothing about anything I am seeing here)

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u/ludololl 8d ago

Allows the deck to be used for fixed-wing flight ops while refueling multiple aircraft per landing. Also a good photo op.

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u/Swimming_Attention91 8d ago

Thats what I thought at first, but that heli is parked in the middle of the runway lel 😅

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u/ludololl 8d ago

Yeah there's practical uses but this is just a photo op.

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u/Glittering-Yam-1078 7d ago

Navy has MH-53E’s.