Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
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Sep 13, 2026
Conrad FranzHOST
Well, we have these images.
Conrad FranzHOST
Jordanian netizens captured in video on c- a convoy transporting at least four US, uh, UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters across Jordan, allegedly from the Muwaffaq Al-Salti Air Base, uh, to an unknown location.
Conrad FranzHOST
At least one of the helicopters had noticeable shrapnel damage to its cockpit, likely as a result of Iranian missile attacks.
Conrad FranzHOST
You can see here.
Brittany LewisHOST
And I was listening to an interview you did and you were talking about your experience that day and you said it was a really formative experience.
Brittany LewisHOST
While a lot of us were watching 9-11 and the aftermath unfold on our TVs, on the news, you were actually as a Black Hawk pilot flying in U.S. airspace.
Brittany LewisHOST
So to start off the conversation, can you bring us to that day from your perspective?
Brad BowmanGUEST
No, thank you.
Brad BowmanGUEST
But yeah, on September 11, 2001, those who were alive then It's a day we'll never forget, kind of like the previous generation will never forget where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Brad BowmanGUEST
It's just one of those pivotal days we all remember that's burned in your memory.
Brad BowmanGUEST
On that day, I was company commander of Charlie Company 12th Aviation Battalion, a U.S. Army active duty Black Hawk unit at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Brad BowmanGUEST
Our day-to-day mission was flying VIPs, pretty much everyone below the president, so members of Congress, Pentagon leaders, cabinet officials around the Middle Atlantic region.
JaredPANELIST
They're a major American weapons manufacturer that's up and coming.
JaredPANELIST
They co-developed a battery and charger that will be produced in Taiwan for one of Anduril's most prolific munitions, the Altia 600, which was recently just adapted for use on the US's premier helicopter, the H-60 platform.
JaredPANELIST
Now, this makes the Altia 600 critically reliant on access to Taiwanese manufacturing because if you can't charge it, you can't use it.
JaredPANELIST
Now, if Anduril becomes a primary defense contractor, as they appear to be doing, this will basically require the U.S. to protect Taiwan from China or at least stall, potentially even forfeit production of this new now critical or soon to be critical munition.
Dave NealHOST
So I could be wrong.
Dave NealHOST
Now, there's also footage coming around the internet of, this is making the rounds today, of four Black Hawk helicopters that were destroyed during Iran's missile attack on the Muwaffaq al-Salti airbase in Jordan.
Dave NealHOST
Now, What we know for sure is at least four of those missiles touched down hard and definitely hit the targets.
Dave NealHOST
The U.S., again, denies that.
Dave NealHOST
So, you know, once a liar, always a liar.
Dave NealHOST
Who's telling the truth here? Now, when you ask Grok, which is the AI for Twitter, about these images we're seeing here, They say the footage appears older and recirculated.
Dave NealHOST
Similar videos of damaged Black Hawks on flatbed trucks from Jordan bases circulated in late August of 2026.
Dave NealHOST
Now, late August was just several weeks ago.
Sasha IngberHOST
At 29, Justin was its youngest member.
Sasha IngberHOST
There was no time to onboard him, and he was told he was leaving the next day, departing from the D.C. area to a base in Uzbekistan, then touching down in northern Afghanistan on a Black Hawk helicopter.
Sasha IngberHOST
Justin would go on to clear the way for follow-on forces to land, secure alliances with warlords to oust the Taliban, interrogate enemy fighters who had been captured, and, tragically, lose his colleague, Johnny Mike Spann.
Sasha IngberHOST
Justin takes us back into that historic mission 25 years later.
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Justin SappGUEST
So we waited until there was no light.
Justin SappGUEST
We were flying with the best helicopter unit in the world, the 160th Special Operations Regiment.
Justin SappGUEST
We loaded up on what they call an MH-60, which is a Special Ops Black Hawk.
Justin SappGUEST
And there were two of them.
Steve TrimbleGUEST
You've got an E2D, which, by the way, in that future carry deck is going to look so out of place compared to everything else on it.
Steve TrimbleGUEST
And eventually, they're still talking about a future vertical lift, a version of the future vertical lift family for maritime strike to replace the MH-60.
Steve TrimbleGUEST
So that's, you know, and maybe potentially this rhymes concept with the expat.
Steve TrimbleGUEST
So naval aviation has gotten just super interesting.
GoldiHOST
He's the founder of Fairway Performance and host of the Fairway Performance Golf Podcast.
GoldiHOST
He's also got a pretty interesting background, Australian Defense Force, Blackhawk Helicopters.
GoldiHOST
I got a little bit of a background I don't usually talk about in the American aviation defense space, so maybe we'll get into some of that.
GoldiHOST
But without belaboring the point, let us say, without further ado, please welcome to the podcast, Mr. Sean Dyakoff.
Val MedvedGUEST
All right.
John GrayHOST
I think it's kind of an interesting segue to the conversations running restricted category aircraft, specifically the Blackhawk conversation, right? The Blackhawk conversation has been really timely and really hot.
John GrayHOST
There's a lot of people talking about that.
John GrayHOST
What's your guys' take on where we sit with that?
Ronnie ReeseGUEST
And that's just within the United States with the FAA STCs and so forth and the challenges associated with that.
Ronnie ReeseGUEST
Now you're seeing cross-border type things over the last couple of years.
Ronnie ReeseGUEST
The biggest surprise to me, Blackhawks in Europe, right? Yeah.
Ronnie ReeseGUEST
How many Blackhawks are being actually used in Europe for as many restrictions as typically been there through EASA and the home ownership, home territory, if you want to say, the OEMs there.
Massoud AminGUEST
That was on combat systems and defense.
Massoud AminGUEST
Began with a helicopter for Sikorsky, a Black Hawk helicopter.
Massoud AminGUEST
As the helicopter maneuvered, depending what hit it or what kind of weather conditions, it could vibrate, become unstable.
Massoud AminGUEST
So the goal was to stabilize the helicopter.
Massoud AminGUEST
This helicopter, Black Hawk, while even making it more agile.
Massoud AminGUEST
Stability, agility, they don't go together.
Massoud AminGUEST
So I had to find a solution.
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
And yeah, that was one thing I do remember from it was that I was just walking to lunch because the mess, chow hall was like, you know, it was the embassy, then it was the cash and then I can't remember what they called the...
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
the the lunch area but um in the u.s base but right there was the hls so the helicopter landing site for where they'd bring in you know injured or dead so that they could be sorted out in the hospital and a chopper from the 160th landed you know it's got its they're black hawk but they clearly look different to normal black hawks yeah they've got a big refueling boom on them they've got all this fruit like you know you know I won't go into it.
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
And then all these dudes hanging off the side with their M4s in random cams.
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
They're Americans.
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Dan SultanowskyGUEST
Yeah, so I was the youngest guy as well by at least a couple of years in the squadron.
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
And it was, yeah, it was a bit surreal.
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
It was like my first time in a Black Hawk, for instance, which everyone laughed about.
Dan SultanowskyGUEST
And, yeah, we flew over straight from Perth in a C-17 into Diego Garcia, stayed there a night.
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