Overview

The pole mounted Troop and Gunner seats are designed to the latest accommodation and crash survival requirements for the new "M" version UH-60 Black Hawk aircraft. They provide crash protection for the 5-95% troop range. The UH-60M gunner/crew chief seat has a stand-up harness with three MA-16 inertia reels for maximum protection. It takes less than 2 minutes to remove and store each seat in the space provided.

Specifications

HEIGHT 53.5” (136cm)
WIDTH 18.5” (47cm)
DEPTH 20.7” (52.6cm)
WEIGHT TROOP SEAT 18.8lb (8.5kg)
GUNNER SEAT 32.5lb (14.8kg)
Currently in production for UH-60M
Certified with Air Worthiness Release (AWR) by the US Army
Lightweight and affordable
Safely accommodates fully equipped troops
Installed or removed in 2 minutes
Seat folds to increase cabin volume
Interface kit easily installedHEIGHT 53.5” (136cm)

How it works

A relatively high percentage of helicopter crashes are survivable. This is especially true in modern helicopters with robust structures designed to survive the crash. However, the human body cannot tolerate the crash forces and accelerations. The back and neck are particularly vulnerable to major and often fatal injuries. Our patented crashworthy seat technologies offer reliable and proven solutions to this problem by attenuating crash energy so that forces and accelerations imposed on the seat occupant are below injury thresholds. In the process of attenuating energy, the seat strokes (moves downward) in a controlled fashion. The energy is attenuated by the seat structure over a longer time period and keeps it well below injury thresholds. Martin-Baker has developed the technology and design approach that not only attenuates these loads over a broad weight range, but remains lightweight and affordable.