Changes: UH-60 Black Hawk

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The UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. The Black Hawk series helicopters appear in the Battlefield Series as the United States Armed Forces main transport helicopter. The UH-60 Black Hawk and one of its variants the MH-60S Knight Hawk, both appear in the Battlefield Series.

Battlefield 2

The MH-60S Knight Hawk is featured in Battlefield 2 as the USMC's transport helicopter. It has a crew of three (the pilot and two door gunners) and can hold up to three passengers (two sitting on either edge of the helicopter, one facing the right-hand side door).

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

The UH-60L is a five seater, well armored Helicopter that packs a huge firepower: 2 M134 miniguns and the weapons of the 2 passengers. The pilot has access to rockets and side-mounted miniguns.

Battlefield: Bad Company

BFBC UH-60 — The UH-60 Black Hawk on Par for the Course.

The UH-60 Black Hawk in Battlefield: Bad Company is seen in the singleplayer campaign, however the player cannot interact with it in any way.

It is seen in the beginning cutscene of Welcome to Bad Company, transporting Marlowe, Sweetwater and Haggard to rejoin Sergeant Redford. Another Black Hawk, call sign Super Six Five during the mission in order to extract the squad, but is shot down by nearby anti-air fire.

It is seen most prominently in the mission Par for the Course, at the beginning, the player will see it sitting behind them. It is indestructible and has no one in it. At the first cutscene, the same Black Hawk is seen flying over a golf course and being shot down by anti-air guns, affirming the hostility of Serdaristan to the United States.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

"Designated as a Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS) the UH-60 is armed with 2 x 7.62mm M134 Miniguns, operated by a crew of 2 and can transport 3 full armed troops."

— In-game description.

The UH-60 Black Hawk in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 can now be used by the player and is available for use in multiplayer. It has a crew of three, (one Pilot, two Gunners), and can hold an additional two sitting over the sides firing their class weapons. The UH-60 appears in the maps Port Valdez, Isla Inocentes, Valparaiso and Heavy Metal.

BFBC 2 Black Hawk Helicopter — The UH-60 in *Battlefield: Bad Company 2*

In the Demo of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, it appears that the Black Hawk can deploy flares. The flares may drop for a second or continuously for a short amount of time depending on how long the button to do so is pressed. In the full game the Black Hawk has this ability along with all the other helicopters using the Smoke Countermeasures vehicle specialization.

The Black Hawk is armed with two main M134 Dillon Miniguns attached to the side of the helicopter, and two positions for two players to fire their regular weapons out the side opening. Engineers can also repair the helicopter midflight.

Battlefield Play4Free

The UH-60 is featured in the maps Oman and Dalian Plant as the American transport helicopter. One spawns very often on the USS Essex and its Russian counterpart is the Mi-17 Hip. The Black Hawk can hold up to 5 people.

Also, a wreckage of the UH-60 can be found near Flag B in Sharqi.

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Trivia

In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 when a gunner kills a player with the UH-60's minigun, the game shows the UH-60 as the AH-60 in the killcam and as UH-64 in the killfeed.
In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 single player, the UH-60 has guns that the pilot can fire, however in multiplayer, only the side-mounted guns are present.
In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, if there are squad members in the Gunner Seat, for every kill they get the driver receives an assist of 50 points, the same amount as getting a normal kill.
In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, a friendly engineer riding in a passenger seat can repair the Black Hawk, allowing players to stay up in the air for long periods of time. However, helicopters are only able to be repaired while flying level, since the game perceives it as idle if on the ground.
If someone such as an Assault or Medic drops a Medkit/Ammo box while in the Black Hawk, it will fall through the floor towards the ground.
In the Bad Company series' singleplayer, almost every Black Hawk the squad rides on gets shot down.
On servers with adjusted spawn time, the players sitting on the Black Hawk's miniguns experience a bug named the Zoom Bug, which occurs when the server has a spawn time of 10 seconds instead of the default 15 seconds. On the occurrence of the bug, when the player spawn on a squad member inside the Black Hawk, the zoom reverts in a 1.0x magnification, making it easier to follow and kill the enemies than the normal zoom level. It behaves opposite to the available zoom in feature, giving you enhanced view but keeping crosshair at moving hostiles is harder.
In Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, the Black Hawk is armed with rockets and side mounted miniguns unlike the other transport helicopters.

External links

UH-60 on Wikipedia

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