ℹ️ ➖➖➖ The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS) competition in 1972. The Army designated the prototype as the YUH-60A and selected the Black Hawk as the winner of the program in 1976, after a fly-off competition with the Boeing Vertol YUH-61. The UH-60 features four-blade main and tail rotors and is powered by two General Electric T700 turboshaft engines. The main rotor is fully articulated and has elastomeric bearings in the rotor head. The tail rotor is canted and features a rigid crossbeam. The helicopter has a long, low profile shape to meet the Army's requirement for transporting aboard a C-130 Hercules, with some disassembly. It can carry 11 troops with equipment, lift 2,600 pounds (1,200 kg) of cargo internally or 9,000 pounds (4,100 kg) of cargo (for UH-60L/M) externally by a sling. The Black Hawk helicopter series can perform a wide array of missions, including the tactical transport of troops, electronic warfare, and aeromedical evacuation. The UH-60 can be equipped with stub wings at the top of the fuselage to carry fuel tanks or various armaments. The initial stub wing system is called External Stores Support System (ESSS). It has two pylons on each wing to carry two 230 US gal (870 L) and two 450 US gal (1,700 L) tanks in total. The four fuel tanks and associated lines and valves form the external extended range fuel system (ERFS). U.S. Army UH-60s have had their ESSS modified into the crashworthy external fuel system (CEFS) configuration, replacing the older tanks with up to four total 200 US gal (760 L) crashworthy tanks along with self-sealing fuel lines. The ESSS can also carry 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) of armaments such as rockets, missiles, and gun pods.
📑 ➖➖➖ The US Army’s Security Assistance Command (USASAC) has completed the delivery of a $338 million foreign military sales (FMS) package of eight Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and associated training and support to Tunisia. The UH-60Ms were ordered by Tunisia in 2015. Four of the helicopters were delivered in June 2017, and four more followed in June 2018. The package for Tunisia included training an initial aircrew cadre at Fort Rucker, Alabama, for pilots, instructor pilots and standardisation pilots; while helicopter crew chiefs and maintainers underwent training at a number of US Army schools. This helped to build Tunisian capabilities and promises to ensure that Tunisia and the US will use the same operating and maintenance procedures, further increasing interoperability during any future combined missions.
Joint US and Tunisian teams were responsible for introducing the UH-60M into Tunisian service, even down to unloading the new helicopters from the transport aircraft which delivered them and assembling and flight-testing the UH-60Ms.

▪️🛠Manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft
▪️✅ Introduction 1979
▪️👤Crew: 2 pilots + 2 crew chiefs/gunners
▪️👥 Capacity: 2,640 lb (1,200 kg) of cargo internally, including 11 troops or 6 stretchers, or 9,000 lb (4,100 kg) of cargo externally
▪️📏 Length: 64 ft 10 in (19.76 m) including rotors
Fuselage length: 50 ft 1 in (15.27 m)
▪️↔️Width: 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)
▪️↕️ Height: 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m)
▪️⬇️ Empty weight: 12,511 lb (5,675 kg)
▪️↗️ Max takeoff weight: 22,000[194] lb (9,979 kg)
▪️⚙️ Powerplant: 2 × General Electric T700-GE-701C/D turboshaft engines, 1,890 shp (1,410 kW) each
Main rotor diameter: 53 ft 8 in (16.36 m)
Main rotor area: 2,260 sq ft (210 m2)
Blade section: root: Sikorsky SC2110; tip: Sikorsky SSC-A09
▪️⏭ Maximum speed: 159 kn (183 mph, 294 km/h)
▪️⏩ Cruise speed: 152 kn (175 mph, 282 km/h)
Never exceed speed: 193 kn (222 mph, 357 km/h)
▪️🛢 Combat range: 320 nmi (370 mi, 590 km)
▪️🔁 Ferry range: 1,199 nmi (1,380 mi, 2,221 km) with ESSS stub wings and external tanks
▪️🔂 Service ceiling: 19,000 ft (5,800 m)
▪️⬆️ Rate of climb: 1,646 ft/min (8.36 m/s)
▪️🔄 Disk loading: 7.19 lb/sq ft (35.1 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.192 shp/lb (0.316 kW/kg)
▪️⚔️ Armament
2 × 7.62 mm (0.30 in) M240 machine guns
2 × 7.62 mm (0.30 in) M134 minigun or
2 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) GAU-19 gatling guns

Ref: Wikipedia; arabianaerospace.