{"id":668097,"date":"2026-05-07T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/sikorsky-armed-black-hawk-uh-60-hellfire-kit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:53:28","slug":"sikorsky-armed-black-hawk-uh-60-hellfire-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/sikorsky-armed-black-hawk-uh-60-hellfire-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky Just Bolted Hellfires Onto the Black Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>Sikorsky has just turned the world&#8217;s most-built combat helicopter into a gunship.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Connecticut-based Lockheed Martin subsidiary has unveiled what it is calling the Armed Black Hawk \u2014 a clean-sheet conversion kit that bolts external pylons, sensor turrets, and weapons onto a standard UH-60M airframe and turns it into a light-attack helicopter capable of carrying everything from rocket pods to Hellfire missiles to laser-guided 70mm rockets. The kit is designed to be installed and removed in the field, which means a single Black Hawk can fly a routine troop-transport mission in the morning and a Hellfire-armed escort run in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n<p>That flexibility is the headline. There are roughly 4,000 Black Hawks in service worldwide. None of them are gunships. Sikorsky just made all of them gunship-capable, on demand, with a kit Sikorsky says can be installed in hours.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f5f7;border-radius:8px;padding:18px 22px;margin:18px 0 28px;font-size:14.5px;line-height:1.7\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#5C91FF;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.5px;font-size:12.5px\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:3px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Sikorsky UH-60M Armed Black Hawk<\/p><p style=\"margin:3px 0\"><strong>Conversion:<\/strong> Bolt-on weapons kit (field-removable)<\/p><p style=\"margin:3px 0\"><strong>Hardpoints:<\/strong> External Stores Support System (ESSS) pylons<\/p><p style=\"margin:3px 0\"><strong>Weapons options:<\/strong> Hellfire, AGM-179 JAGM, Hydra 70 \/ APKWS, miniguns, .50 cal<\/p><p style=\"margin:3px 0\"><strong>Sensor:<\/strong> Optional electro-optical \/ infrared turret<\/p><p style=\"margin:3px 0\"><strong>Worldwide UH-60 fleet:<\/strong> approx. 4,000<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why a flexible kit instead of a dedicated gunship<\/h2>\n\n<p>The U.S. Army already has a dedicated attack helicopter \u2014 the AH-64 Apache \u2014 and the Marine Corps has the AH-1Z Viper. Both are excellent gunships. Both are also expensive, in short supply, and unsuited to a lot of missions where what you actually need is a transport helicopter that happens to have teeth.<\/p>\n\n<p>Insert escort. Convoy protection. Light reconnaissance-strike. Counter-drone. Counter-insurgency in places where the Apache fleet is too thin to rotate through. These are the missions Sikorsky is targeting. The Armed Black Hawk is not meant to replace the Apache. It is meant to give every UH-60 operator on Earth \u2014 the U.S. Army, every NATO partner, every Latin American and Asian Black Hawk customer \u2014 the option to put fangs on a transport helicopter when the mission demands it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=65689436  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:8Nf6.bbb0\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/mh-60l-dap-direct-action-penetrator-soar.jpg\" alt=\"MH-60L DAP \u2014 Direct Action Penetrator\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The U.S. Army&#8217;s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment has flown an armed Black Hawk variant \u2014 the MH-60L DAP \u2014 for decades. Sikorsky&#8217;s new Armed Black Hawk is a less-classified, exportable equivalent. (US Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Latin American precedent<\/h2>\n\n<p>This is not, technically, a new idea. Colombia&#8217;s Air Force has flown the Sikorsky Arp\u00eda III \u2014 an armed export variant of the UH-60L \u2014 for years, with rocket pods, gun pods, and an EO\/IR turret bolted to the same External Stores Support System (ESSS) Sikorsky now offers as an open kit. Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and a handful of others have flown similar conversions in smaller numbers.<\/p>\n\n<p>What Sikorsky has now done is industrialise the concept. Instead of a one-off depot-level modification for a specific customer, this is a catalogue product, sold off the shelf, certified for the latest UH-60M airframe. If you operate a Black Hawk and you have the budget, you can buy the kit.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=707433696  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:8Nf6.bbb0\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/us-army-uh-60-black-hawk.jpg\" alt=\"US Army UH-60 Black Hawk\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A standard U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk on the flight line. The Armed Black Hawk kit can be installed on the same airframe in hours, then removed and put back to standard transport configuration. (US Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Hellfire from a Hawk<\/h2>\n\n<p>The most striking weapons option is the AGM-114 Hellfire. The Hellfire is the Apache&#8217;s signature missile \u2014 laser-guided, fire-and-forget, capable of killing a tank or a building or a single moving truck \u2014 and putting it on a Black Hawk is something the U.S. Army has, until now, only done in the special-operations community. The newer AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile is also on the menu.<\/p>\n\n<p>For lighter targets, Sikorsky offers Hydra 70mm rockets in seven-shot or nineteen-shot pods, with the option of laser-guided APKWS rounds for precision work. There are pintle mounts in the cabin doors for the standard M134 minigun and a podded gun option on the wings.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why now<\/h2>\n\n<p>The timing is not subtle. The U.S. Army has just retired the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior scout-attack helicopter. Its replacement, the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), was cancelled. There is a real, unfilled gap in the armed-helicopter inventory. Filling it with a kit on existing UH-60 airframes is fast, cheap, and exportable.<\/p>\n\n<p>The export piece matters. NATO partners, Pacific allies, and increasingly the Ukrainian armed forces all operate Black Hawks. Sikorsky now has a product to sell them that is not a brand-new helicopter \u2014 it is a way to make their existing fleet do more.<\/p>\n\n<p>Four thousand Black Hawks just got a little less defenceless.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:24px\"><em>Sources: Lockheed Martin \/ Sikorsky press release, Defense Blog, Aviation Week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/jolly-green-gets-missile-shield-after-iran-rescue\/\">Jolly Green Gets Missile Shield After Iran Rescue<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/hh-60w-jolly-green-takes-over-dcs-doomsday-mission\/\">HH-60W Jolly Green Takes Over DC&#8217;s Doomsday Mission<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/apaches-and-seahawks-sink-six-iranian-boats-in-hormuz\/\">Apaches and Seahawks Sink Six Iranian Boats in Hormuz<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sikorsky has just turned the world&#8217;s most-built combat helicopter into a gunship. 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