Illustrative image. (U.S. Central Command)
The United States Naval Forces Central Command announced that a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier conducted an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea on July 1.
In a statement posted to X, the command said that there is no indication the emergency water landing was caused by “hostile action.”
“Three of the helicopter’s four crew members have been recovered and are in stable condition aboard George H. W. Bush. U.S. Navy assets in the region are currently searching for other aircrewman still missing,” it added, noting the “cause of incident is under investigation.”
The MH-60S, a variant of the naval SH-60, is typically deployed aboard aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, Maritime Sealift Command ships, and fast combat support ships.
The helicopter’s missions include vertical replenishment, medical evacuation, combat search and rescue, anti-surface warfare, maritime interdiction, close air support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and special warfare support. A single helicopter of this type could cost upwards of $30 million.
This is the second American military helicopter to go down close to the Strait of Hormuz in under a month. On June 8, an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down near the coast of Oman. Both crewmen were rescued by a drone of the U.S. Navy in a first.
Interestingly, when the Apache went down, the U.S. military, just likely now, didn’t provide any clear reason. Later, however, it acknowledged that the helicopter was hit by an Iranian drone. The incident led to a series of clashes with the Islamic Republic.
The latest incident also follows a clash between the U.S. and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. The clash broke out after Oman announced an alternative route through the waterway along its shoreline in cooperation with the International Maritime Organization.
Two ships were hit along the route, with the U.S. Central Command holding Iran responsible and launching two waves of strikes against the Islamic Republic. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded both times, hitting American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
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it was probably hit by a drone. and fuck that zio power scumbag.
💯 the us loser tell lies all the time.
no, it was a fire in the laundry area. scratch one amerikunt.
word from oman is that they were deploying spec ops, got spotted after the insertion and lost control whilst taking evading action to prevent iranian observation drones noting the insertion point.
so in other words the pilots panicked.
time to nuke the iranian goatfuckers…heheheh
you jews learned well from your nazi betters. seig heil!
pakistan says they’ll nuke israel if the joo’s set one off over iran, time to turn tel aviv, into a radioactive glassed parking lot. hehehehe
a couple of megatons should cleanse occupied palestine of the kike infestation.
there’s no such thing as jewish pride and power…heheheh
do you mean to say trump is going after iranian goats now? what a demented bastard. i wondered why he had those tall rubber boots the other day.
the jooz have probably got epstein tapes of him doing that too.
it seems more and more women are getting involved in war. congratulations to the women’s liberation movement! but in the end, if someone is so blind and stupid that they enlist into a western military (for conquest of resources and lands, and if they don’t know that then they should know it!) then it does not matter if male or female, they need to remove themselves from the human gene pool.
us child killer losers are having helicopters shot down regularly. zionist bastards need the same treatment by hezbollah.
missing one what?
and the us looses yet another aircraft, the us is quite careless with its expensive aircraft.
sorry to all the girls out there but maybe this loss was due to pilot error? the potomac accident last year comes to mind. dei will cause people to die. we have seen this in all areas of public security service since this doctrine was introduced. where ever a lady has been employed to replicate the muscle of a man’s job.
iran needs to stop hitting blown up u.s. bases. start hitting ships. how does hitting bases already hit put pressure on the orange baboon? now, he will ‘hit back’ after losing this chopper and iran will again strike blown up bases? why? where did the chopper, that isn’t even supposed to be there, come from? hit that. besides, if it was a mere malfunction, why would tramp attack? but he will.