Additional tasks for the Sea Knight include combat support, search and
rescue, support for forward refueling points and Tactical
Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel.
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The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King is a twin-engine anti-submarine warfare
helicopter designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft. It was the world's first amphibious helicopter and one of the first
rotorcraft to use turboshaft engines.
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The Sea King was the primary helicopter for retrieving manned space
capsules starting with Mercury-Atlas 7 in May 1962 and continued with
the Apollo program.
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Besides manned recovery, the Sea King could also
deploy dipping sonar and other sound surveillance systems.
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During the Vietnam War, SH-3s rescued the crews of downed aircraft at
sea and over land, using self-sealing fuel tanks, machine guns and
armor. The Sea King was also used for medical evacuations and disaster
relief efforts.
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The C-1 Trader was built as an anti submarine airplane. It used
anti-submarine weapons, carrying any one of a number of devices that are
intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy the vessel
or reduce its capability as a weapon of war. In its simplest sense an
anti-submarine weapon is usually a projectile, missile or bomb that is
optimized to destroy submarines. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the
C-1 Trader carried mail and supplies to aircraft carriers on station in
the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War and also served as a trainer
for all-weather carrier operations.
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A tailhook, arresting hook, or arrester hook is a device attached to the
rear of some military fixed-wing aircraft. The hook is used to achieve
rapid deceleration during routine landings aboard aircraft carrier
flight decks at sea, or during emergency landings or aborted takeoffs at
properly equipped airports. The arresting cables the hooks grab
onto during recovery only last 100 landings before they are replaced.
Each arresting cable is 1500 feet long.
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