List of Sikorsky S-70 variants


This is a list of versions of the Sikorsky S-70 military helicopter family, that entered service starting in the 1979. It is in service with 35 countries globally, and is commonly known as the UH-60 Black Hawk, the name from its biggest user the United States Army.

US military designations

  • YUH-60A prototype airframe
  • YEH-60B specialized radar and avionics UH-60A modified for the proposed Stand-Off Target Acquisition System including an underslung rotating sensor in a canoe fairing
  • EUH-60L Army Airborne Command and Control
  • GUH-60A non-flying Simulator
  • JUH-60A Evaluation and testing craft
  • YEH-60B prototype

CH-60S

Source:

EH-60

EH-60A

  • Specialized Jammer
  • A UH-60A modified for evaluation pursuant to the Quick Fix II EW Program. It was prepared for an AN/ALQ-151 multi-role tactical EW system, four dipole antennae were mounted in pairs on either side of the tailboom, and a deployable whip antenna was added beneath the aft section of the main cabin. The YEH-60A was equipped with the AN/ALQ-144 infrared countermeasures set and flare & chaff launchers and the standard AN/APR-39(V)1 receiver.

EH-60B

  • EW prototype variant
  • Stand-Off Target Acquisition System prototype.

EH-60C

  • specialized equipment and antenna
  • locate enemy signals traffic
  • classify enemy signals traffic
  • disrupt enemy signals traffic

HH-60

HH-60D Nighthawk

Canceled SAR

HH-60G

Combat Rescue

HH-60L

Modified UH-60L medevac

HH-60M

Modified UH-60M medevac "M" does not stand for Medical/ Medevac

HH-60W

Modified version of the UH-60M for CSAR. Entered service in 2020.

MH-60

MH-60A

FLIR

MH-60G

  • Pave Hawk

MH-60K

MH-60L

  • 30mm chain gun
  • 2.75" rocket pods
  • M134D Gatling gun

MH-60R

Converted SH-60B

MH-60S

  • SH-60 base with UH-60 2nd cargo door restored
  • combat SAR

MH-60T

  • Improved Jayhawk

SH-60

SH-60F

  • inside ASW search, parred down SH-60B

SH-60R

  • Redesignated as MH-60R, later.

UH-60

  • UH-60A RASCAL - Rotorcraft Air Crew System Concept
  • UH-60C
  • UH-60E
  • UH-60Q Medevac Dustoff - became HH-60A

UH-60A

  • non assisted folding tail
  • Exhaust suppression
  • Tracor AN/ARN-148 Omega navigation system

UH-60B

  • CRT cockpit
  • New Engines

UH-60L

  • T700-GE-701c 1940shp
  • Revised Gearbox
  • Revised Flight Control
  • Electronics more emi resistant, particularly to German powerlines
  • Instrumentation panel made NVG compatible

UH-60M

  • New Avionics
  • Composite Rotor w/ wider chord
  • improved gearbox
  • New cockpit instrumentation including IVHMS computer
  • reinforced fuselage

UH-60V

  • New avionics, UH-60L converted to glass cockpit. In February 2024, the Army announced it would cancel further plans to upgrade remaining UH-60L's to the UH-60V standard, in favor of acquiring more new production UH-60Ms to shore up the industrial base for UH-60 production.

VH-60

;VH-60A
;VH-60D
;VH-60N

Sikorsky internal model designations

S-70A

The S-70A is Sikorsky's designation for Black Hawk models produced for export.
;S-70A-1
;S-70A-1L
;S-70A-5
;S-70A-9
;S-70A-11
;S-70A-12
;S-70A-14
;S-70A-16
;S-70A-17
;S-70A-19
;S-70A-21
;S-70A-24
;S-70A-26
;S-70A-27
;S-70A-33
;S-70A-42

S-70B

The S-70B is Sikorsky's designation for export versions of the Sea Hawk naval helicopter with folding main rotors and tail. India will acquire several S-70B for its navy.

S-70C

;S-70C
;S-70C-1/2

S-70i

The S-70i is Sikorsky's designation of the UH-60M produced by PZL Mielec in Poland.

S-70 Unmanned Aircraft System ("U-Hawk")

Modified UH-60L demonstrator converted into an uncrewed cargo drone by removing the cockpit and adding clamshell doors. The cockpit, pilot, and crew chief stations are removed allowing the full cabin space to be used for mission packages and increasing usable space by 25% compared to previous variants. The aircraft is capable of autonomous or fly-by-wire control and can be operated from a tablet-like device. It can self-deploy to a range of 1,600 nm with a total endurance of 14 hours without refueling; this can be extended through usage of internal fuel tanks. Payload capacity is 7,000 internal, 9,000 sling loaded, or 10,000 mixed, which is roughly comparable by weight to that of a crewed UH-60L. Configured for cargo, the aircraft can carry up to four Joint Modular Intermodal Containers, or ammunition pods for the M270 and HIMARS rocket systems, or two canisters for the Naval Strike Missile. For direct engagements, the U-Hawk is designed to carry "launch quivers" of 24-50 "air-launched effects" munitions.

Non-US military designations

;AH-60L
;AH-60L
;UH-60J
;UH-60JA
;SH-60J
;SH-60K
;HM-2
;H.12
;H.PD.1
;H.LL.5