Armament: 3x .50 caliber machine guns Load: 37 troops or 24 litter patients plus four attendants or 8,000 pounds The CH-53D Sea Stallion is a medium lift helicopter used by the Marines Corps.

The video below shows the Sea Stallion going through aerobatic testing ... being retired from the Air Force in 2008 and the USMC's CH-53D variant being retired in 2012. Today the H-53 continues ...

sea-based, long-range solution for the naval force. The CH-53K King Stallion advances Sikorsky’s 50 years of manufacturing and operational success with its CH-53A, CH-53D/G, and CH-53E predecessors.

Pacific Ocean (July 24, 2006) - Seven CH-53D Sea Stallions fly by the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) in formation. Bonhomme Richard is currently underway participating in the Rim ...

Navy sailors from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 1, Company 15, clear the extraction point in Kaneohe Bay where a CH-53D Sea Stallion is lifting another CH-53D back to Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay ...

The CH-53D Sea Stallion and CH-53E Super Stallion provide unparalleled combat heavy lift to the MAGTF and...flying well above their programmed rates in austere, expeditionary conditions.” ...

Belonging to the 118th Heavy Transport Helicopter Squadron S-65C-3 Yasur - the Israeli version of the Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion - suffered a malfunction. The machine safely landed in the area ...

The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) had a CH-53E Super Stallion squadron and a CH-53D Sea Stallion squadron. But both versions of the aircraft were decades old, but were incredibly busy across ...

How do you move a 16,000 pound M198 Howitzer, with its crew and ammo, 50 miles over impossible terrain in one night? You get yourself a Super Stallion, the biggest and strongest air pony in the US ...

INCREASED PAYLOAD: U.S. Marine Corps CH-53D Sea Stallion and CH-53E Super Stallion engines soon should benefit from more power on hot temperature and high altitude flights thanks to engine upgrades.

HMH-363 is one of three squadrons at Kaneohe Bay with 10 aging Sea Stallion helicopters and ... to dissipate very quickly.” He said the CH-53D crews fly three to five days a week on the training ...