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1. Sikorsky-Army Removable Self
Sky Crane II Deployment Wings
* Extra Fuel Tanks
Initial CH-54X Demonstrator * Semitrical Left-Right Same
Then add CH-53X Drive Train
SIKO
R SKY
-ARM
Y
Self Deployment Pod
* Main Rotor Blades Stored
inside or along side Twin Piasecki
* FCS Vehicle?
Ring-Tail Fans
* Powered by dive shaft
Low Cost FTR Option from main engines
* Provides FWD Thrust
*LOW RISK Development * 250-350 Knot Cruise * Provides Ducted
Counter-Torque
* No Load Transmission * 2500 nm Ferry Range
during Self deployment * Short Stub Wings for
* Pod System = Multi-Service Compound Ops W/Rotor
* Running TO with Ext Load * Early Fielding 2003
Air-Mech-Strike Study Group
Dec 2000 Chuck Jarnot & Mike Sparks
(785) 239-3393 jarnotc@riley.army.mil

2. SIKOR
SKY-A
R MY
Sikorsky-Army
Sky Crane II
Two Hours After
Deployment Air-Mech-Strike Study Group
Dec 2000 Chuck Jarnot & Mike Sparks
(785) 239-3393 jarnotc@riley.army.mil