What is this variation of the Kaman HH-2D?

[aidenmac16]

A Kaman HH-2D on the test bed at Naval Air Station Warminster, or "Johnsville".

Source is from Abandoned and Little Known Airfields, Northwestern Philidelphia Area.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Pennsylvania - Northwestern Philadelphia area

www.airfields-freeman.com

What is this variant of the HH-2D Seasprite?

 

[Wurger]

Man, you've alread answered the question yourself. Kaman HH-2D Seasprite (K-888) c/n 37. A testbed for YSH-2E. Operated by Naval Air Development Center.

Use just a Google.

the source: Aircraft Photo of 149033 / 9033 | Kaman HH-2D Seasprite (K-888) | USA - Navy | AirHistory.net #373648

 

[aidenmac16]

Man, you've alread answered the question yourself. Kaman HH-2D Seasprite (K-888) c/n 37. A testbed for YSH-2E. Operated by Naval Air Development Center.

Use just a Google.

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the source: Aircraft Photo of 149033 / 9033 | Kaman HH-2D Seasprite (K-888) | USA - Navy | AirHistory.net #373648

Well, I have looked it up on google and google is not really good such as Wikipedia, also google is ai also so its not that good.

 

[Wurger]

Well, I have looked it up on google and google is not really good such as Wikipedia, also google is ai also so its not that good.

So .... how did it come I found it in 3s while you needed to ask for the ID having the Wikipedia?

 

[Snautzer01]

Aircraft Photo of 149033 / 9033 | Kaman HH-2D Seasprite (K-888) | USA - Navy | AirHistory.net #373627

Aircraft photo of 149033 / 9033 - Kaman HH-2D Seasprite (K-888) - USA - Navy, taken by Stephen Miller at Warminster - Naval Air Warfare Center (NJP) (closed) in Pennsylvania, United States on 9 June 1972. Testbed for YSH-2E. Operated by Naval Air Development Center.

www.airhistory.net

 

[aidenmac16]

So .... how did it come I found it in 3s while you needed to ask for the ID having the Wikipedia?

real

 

[GreenKnight121]

UH-2A,B/SH-2D,F,G (Kaman K-20) Seasprite/Super Seasprite Helicopter | Naval Helicopter Association Historical Society

www.nhahistoricalsociety.org

YSH-2E: Two test and evaluation helicopters, fitted with an advanced radar and LAMPS equipment.
This led to the SH-2F.

During October 1970, the UH-2 was selected to be the platform to function as the interim Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) helicopter.

During the course of the 1960s, LAMPS had evolved out of an urgent requirement to develop a manned helicopter that would be capable of supporting a non-aviation vessel and serve as its tactical Anti-Submarine Warfare arm. Widely referred to as LAMPS Mark I, the advanced sensors, processors, and display capabilities aboard the helicopter enabled such equipped ships to extend their situational awareness beyond the line-of-sight limitations that unavoidably hampered the performance of shipboard radars, as well as the short distances involved in the acoustic detection and prosecution of underwater threats associated with hull-mounted sonars. Those H-2s that were reconfigured to perform the LAMPS mission were accordingly re-designated as SH-2Ds.

On 16 March 1971, the first SH-2D LAMPS prototype conducted its first flight. Beginning in 1973, production deliveries of the latest variant of the rotorcraft, designated as the SH-2F, commenced. Amongst the features of the SH-2F model was the full suite of LAMPS I equipment, along with various other improvements, such as upgraded engines, an extended life main rotor, and an elevated take-off weight.