HELLO
I'M LOOKING FOR INFORMATION (picture) ABOUT TWO HELICOPTERS:
AH-60L DAP and CH-47 CHINOOK IN IRAQ.
MAYBE SOMEBODY KNOWN IF US ARMY USE THATS MACHINES IN IRAQ NOW?
THANK YOU FOR HELP
CHRIS

The CH-47D version is still heavily used in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US Army. The MH-60L DAP (there is no AH-60L as Academy calls it) is still used by the US Army's 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) who supports Special Operations forces from all services. I know they have been used in Afghanistan and Iraq, but can't really dig up much more info than that.

Check in the Aeroscale (the air side of Armorama, upper left above) Rotary Wing forum for more info on both of these helos.

In Michael Durants book he gives a brief decription of the MH60L DAP and what kind of weapons it uses but i have never seen any pictures of one. I have heard of them being used as escorts for 160th SOAR Blackhawks and Chinooks in Afghanistan and Iraqi. Michael Durant talks about how they were first used in combat to hunt Scuds in the first gulf war.

The US Army has also begun phasing in CH-47F Chinooks, though I don't think that any have deployed yet.

Jeff

There are pictures of MH-60L DAP and MH-47D/E in Fred Pushies' "Night Stalkers" (ISBN 0-7603-2141-8). Published 1005 by Zenith Press.

Yes, the MH-60L DAP is definitely being used in Iraq now.

Ron