Keywords: outdoor aircraft vehicle 330-PSA-236-61 (USN 1054600): Mission Bound, the U.S. Navy’s twin-turbine Sikorsky HSS-2 Helicopter, the world’s most advanced helicopter weapon system, lifts from the deck of USS Lake Champlain (CV 39), during recent carrier suitability trials. The HSS-2 is a submarine hunter-killer. It is now known as a Seadragon. Four operational Navy helicopters have been assigned popular names by the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Weapons. The HUS-1 has been assigned the name: Seahorse; the HSS-1 will be known as Seabat; the HSS-2 will be called Seadragon; and the HRB-1 will be Sea Knight. Photograph released October 25, 1961. (9/22/2015). 330-PSA-236-61 (USN 1054600): Mission Bound, the U.S. Navy’s twin-turbine Sikorsky HSS-2 Helicopter, the world’s most advanced helicopter weapon system, lifts from the deck of USS Lake Champlain (CV 39), during recent carrier suitability trials. The HSS-2 is a submarine hunter-killer. It is now known as a Seadragon. Four operational Navy helicopters have been assigned popular names by the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Weapons. The HUS-1 has been assigned the name: Seahorse; the HSS-1 will be known as Seabat; the HSS-2 will be called Seadragon; and the HRB-1 will be Sea Knight. Photograph released October 25, 1961. (9/22/2015). |