SH-60 Seahawk

Model number: SH-60
Code name: Seahawk
Unit type: helicopter
Manufacturer: Sikorsky Aircraft
Operator(s): U.N. Navy; civilians
Rollout: AD 1979
First deployment: AD 1984
Accommodation: 3-4 crew and 5 passengers
Dimensions: overall height 5.2 meters; overall length 19.75 meters; rotor diameter 16.35 meters
Weight: empty 6,895 kg; max gross 10,400 kg
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: 2 x General Electric T700-GE-401C turboshaft, power output rated at 2 x 1,890 shp (1410 kW)
Performance: maximum level atmospheric speed at 3,580 meters: 270 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: M60 machine gun, mounted on main body; 4 x AGM-114 Hellfire missile, mounted on hardpoint; 2 x Mark 46 torpedo, mounted on hardpoint; Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System (RAMICS), mounts Mk 44 Mod 0 30mm cannon
Optional fixed armaments: M240 machine gun, replaces M60 machine gun; GAU-16/A machine gun, replaces M60 machine gun, GAU-17/A minigun, replaces M60 machine gun; 2 x Mark 50 torpedo, replaces Mark 46 torpedo; 2 x Mark 54s torpedo, replaces Mark 46 torpedo

The SH-60 Seahawk was a helicopter originally manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Navy. The SH-60 could deploy from naval vessels for a wide variety of mission types, including anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, search and rescue and special insertions. The SH-60 entered service with the U.S. Navy in 1984, long before the arrival of the ASS-1. After the creation of the U.N. government, member nations integrated their military equipment under the banner of the U.N. forces. In 2008, an SH-60 transported troops from the carrier Asuka II to the South Pacific island of Mayan to combat Anti-U.N. forces. In 2059, an SH-60 was used aboard the Macross Frontier emigrant fleet for the filming of Bird Human, a movie dramatization of the Bird Human Incident in 2008.

First appearance: Macross Zero

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