{"id":160127,"date":"2024-12-21T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-most-widely-used-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T03:00:28","slug":"what-is-the-us-navys-most-widely-used-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=160127","title":{"rendered":"What Is The US Navy&#8217;s Most Widely Used Helicopter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By some measures, the United States Navy boasts         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026588\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-worlds-2nd-most-powerful-air-force\/\" >the world&#8217;s second-largest and second-most powerful air force after the United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (especially if the Marine Corps&#8217; aviation is included). The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> operates both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft from its ships. While fixed-wing aircraft can operate from the aircraft carriers, the Navy needs             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60458\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopters\/\"  >helicopters<\/a><\/span> to operate off destroyers, cruisers, and other warships (all large surface ships operate warplanes of some sort &#8211; even if it is a single helicopter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawk is by far the most common helicopter in the Navy and is in service in two variants &#8211; the MH-60R Romeo and the MH-60 Sierra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,816,412,423,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-helicopter","category-military","category-united-states","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160128,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160127\/revisions\/160128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}