In the winter 2007 / 2008 The Sea Stallion was exhibited outside the National Museum in Dublin.

In the summer 2008 the Sea Stallion returned to Roskilde on a route going south of England.

This trend has had limited uptake in Western forces with only Germany equipping their airmobile division with the similar Wiesel tankette two of which can be carried inside a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

A United States Navy | US Navy CH-53 Sea Stallion | RH-53D sweeping the Suez Canal in 1974.

On 1 July 2007, the reconstructed Viking ship Skuldelev 2, renamed Sea Stallion, began a journey from Roskilde, Denmark to Dublin, Ireland.

The Sea Stallion arrived outside Dublin's Custom House on 14 August 2007.

Company " H " of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines executed a pre-dawn vertical envelopment of the besieged U. S. Embassy, with 237 Marines inserted via medium and heavy lift Marine CH-53E Super Stallion and CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters.

The operation results in the capture of an Egyptian P-12 radar at Ras Gharib and carrying it to Israel by 2 CH-53 Sea Stallion Helicopters.

The distance to the target was so great that the men were lifted by three U. S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, escorted by 12 AH-1 Cobra gunships.

Here is a Sea Stallion lifting an M77

Two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters landed on Denver from bases in Vietnam to assist in visual surveillance.

* April 24 – To rescue 52 Americans held hostage in Tehran, Iran, during the Iran hostage crisis, the United States Armed Forces mount Operation Eagle Claw, an attempt to carry United States Army Delta Force rescue team to Tehran in eight United States Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters manned by United States Marine Corps personnel flying from the aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.

In Operation De Soto, the introduction of the large CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter made possible moving a platoon south of Quan Ngai City carrying Ontos in slings underneath the aircraft.

Desert One would then become a staging base for eight Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion minesweeper helicopters.

* Task Force 53, Logistics Force / Sealift Logistics Command Central, Military Sealift Command ( MSC replenishment ships plus USN MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters and C-130 Hercules, C-9 Skytrain II and / or C-40 Clipper aircraft )

* CH-53 Sea Stallion ( wheels or rotor brakes )

* Using CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopters, the U. S. Navys Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12 ( HM-12 ) and Mobile Mine Countermeaures Command begin the development of specifications for the U. S. Navys first air mine countermeasures aircraft.

* Spring 1974 – Under an international agreement to clear the Suez Canal of naval mines in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, United States Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion minesweeping helicopters of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12 ( HM-12 ) operating from the amphibious assault ships and use Mark 105 hydrofoil minesweeping sleds to sweep 120 square miles of water betweeb Port Said and Suez, Egypt, in Operation Nimbus Star.

* May 10 – An Israeli Air Force Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashes in the Jordan Valley during a military exercise, killing all 54 people on board.

* February 4 – Two Israeli military Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion Yas ' ur 2000 helicopters collide over She ' ar Yashuv, Israel, killing 73 Israeli Defense Forces soldiers.

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Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363 ( HMH-363 ) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-53D Sea Stallion transport helicopters.

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The arid region, the Sahara — the largest desert in the world, covering — extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, perhaps the largest body of brackish water in the world ( other possibilities include the Black Sea, Hudson Bay and the Caspian Sea ).

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

It is also the largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea.

Baku (, ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region.

In particular, the British Museum ’ s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.

Constantinople was the largest and richest urban center in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the late Eastern Roman Empire, mostly as a result of its strategic position commanding the trade routes between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.

Crete ( ; ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.

Crete is the largest island in Greece and the second largest in the eastern Mediterranean Sea ( after Cyprus ).

The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest seas and has an area of about 2, 754, 000 km² ( 1, 063, 000 sq.

Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127, 500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities.

The company quickly grew into the largest industrial site in the Middle East, and in 1934 built a second plant on the southwest shore, in the Mount Sodom area, south of the ' Lashon ' region of the Dead Sea.

Gotland is located in the Baltic Sea to the east of Öland, and is the largest of Sweden's islands.

During this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II: the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Gibraltar is one of the largest bunkering ports in the Mediterranean Sea, with 4. 3 million tonnes of bunkers delivered in 2007.

In 1938 Gdynia was the largest and most modern seaport on the Baltic Sea, as well as the tenth biggest in Europe.

# Île de la Gonâve, the largest offshore island of mainland Hispaniola, is located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in Haiti's Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea ( the largest gulf of the Antilles ).