A MH-6 Little Bird. The Drive/Warzone.
The Drive has a neat article about a recent military exercise in New York City involving multiple helicopters flying extremely low. The helicopters were two MH-60 Black Hawks and two MH-6 Little Birds, with additional MH-6's possible as well. The helicopters were from the Air Force's elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, also known as the Night Stalkers.
The helicopters were flying low enough that people were filming them from above in their high rise apartments. Though some were concerned by the low flying choppers, the New York Police Department had made people aware of the exercise before it happened.
What are my thoughts? This was pretty cool and it is a clear demonstration of how skilled the 160th is. It's always impressive to see helicopters flying around a low altitudes. It's also very clear that these pilots got some good real world training in an environment similar to many places they could be deployed too.
On the other hand, I certainly understand why people would be freaking out a little bit. If they happened to miss the announcements about the training they would have a reasonable fear that there was some kind of major security incident going on.
All that being said, a lot of people filmed this on twitter and I am going to post a few on here. The Drive article will have a few more but these were the most impressive.
Two more, better video, same maneuver. Super low. Filming? Practice maneuvers? Anyone know? pic.twitter.com/UEHnhDDB3G— Willie Morris (@MoreWillie) April 18, 2018
Low flying + unmarked helicopters flying over Lower Manhattan at high speeds. Rattling pretty much everyone in my building. @NY1NYTonight @kidskathmandu pic.twitter.com/1UibTnCxqk— Sean Vegezzi (@seanvegezzi) April 18, 2018
Black military helicopters flying VERY low by our apartment in lower manhattan. (We are 18th floor.) pic.twitter.com/T1fVLAHVVQ— Susan Temple (@susan_temple) April 18, 2018
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