It was 1988 and the mission was unlike anything attempted before—two MH-47D Chinooks flying deep into the Sahara to steal a pilotless Mi-25 Hind. As elite Night Stalkers secured the Soviet gunship, a ...

An upgrade program exists to remanufacture 300 of the current fleet of 425 CH-47D’s to the CH-47F standard. The MH-47E is the Special Forces variant of the Chinook and will be remanufactured to ...

when the MH-47D was delivered. It was followed by the MH-47E, the first prototype of which was built in 1991. Although the fleet has been modernized, the components of several aircraft are aging ...

Now that the US Department of Defense has moved on to MH-47F models, the CH-47D airframe the Protective Group used for designing armor and modifications became outdated. When Classen saw ...

The CH-47D Chinook undertakes a wide range of missions ... Boeing secures $271 million to advance modernisation of US Special Operations' MH-47G Chinook Boeing has clinched a major contract ...

The variant was first introduced in 2004 when the SOC ordered upgrades on 36 MH-47D/E’s. The military subsequently announced that it had tapped the aerospace manufacturer to produce an ...

The CH-47D will also increase interoperability between Greece ... Boeing has clinched a major contract modification to further its backing of the US Special Operations Command’s MH-47G Chinook ...

MH-47D/E/G, MH-6, MH-60K/L/T, MH-56C, ARH, VH-60 and other CAAS variants. Work is to be performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with an estimated completion date of 2014, according to the Navy.

He was the pilot of a MH-47D Chinook helicopter, and he and seven crewmen and eight Navy Seals died when the chopper was struck by hostile fire and crashed. His wife is still a member of the ...

when the MH-47D was delivered. It was followed by the MH-47E, the first prototype of which was built in 1991. Although the fleet has been modernized, the components of several aircraft are aging, ...