6 days ago · The crew aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk chopper, the 12th Aviation Battalion, is responsible for top-secret evacuation missions meant to whisk top US officials from DC to secure locations in the case ...

Mar 4, 2021 · Pictures have emerged online of a UH-60 Black Hawk belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, or HRT, wearing a previously unseen gloss black paint job.

Jan 30, 2025 · An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on ...

Jan 31, 2025 · The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly D.C. plane crash on Wednesday night was being flown by a female pilot with over 500 hours of flight time, who was training with an instructor pilot.

Oct 4, 2019 · Regular readers of The War Zone may remember a pair of stories from last year regarding what appeared to be domestic training exercises involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation's elite Hostage Rescue Team, or HRT, and their UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. Now the FBI has offered its own inside look at another such exercise in South Carolina ...

Oct 14, 2024 · An experimental U.S. Army UH-60M helicopter with fly-by-wire flight controls is now set to get a ‘robotic brain’ that will allow it to operate with a high degree of autonomy with or without any humans on board.

Aug 4, 2022 · Specially trained agents honed their rescue skills by deploying from a Black Hawk helicopter, as well as surf-rescue jet skis to rescue role players who simulated distressed, drowning, and...

Aug 24, 2023 · The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) serves as the United States’ main counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit, founded with assistance from Delta Force. Known for rapid response to hostage and terror situations, HRT is trained in close combat, sniping, and other specialized tactics.

An FBI Black Hawk helicopter delivers members of the Columbia Field Office’s SWAT team during a Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) training exercise held August 5-7, 2019, in Charleston, South...

Aug 3, 2022 · An FBI Hostage Rescue Team member is raised to a H-60M Black Hawk helicopter during FBI HRT search and rescue training in the Charleston Harbor on Aug. 2, 2022, in Charleston, South...