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MH-3E "Pave Pig"
71st SOS (AFRES), Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona - Ras al Mishab, Saudi Arabia
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5 MH-3E Jolly Greens were sent to Gulf for SAR and CSAR.
First idea to bring them to Gulf war was to send some MH-60Gs back to USA to keep the modification line for them opened.
Helos recieved Trimble GPS (velcroed on the instrument panel in front of the pilots), SATCOM, FLIR System Series 2000E/F and Dalmo Victor AN/APR-39A(V)1 RHAWS.
Double-mount for Lockheed Sanders AN/ALQ-144(V)3 IRCM jammer and brackets for Tracor AN/ALE-40 chaff/flare launchers were installed, but the launchers were not delivered in time.
(MH-3 crews faced the IR missile threat with scanners pointing flare pistols out the cabin windows and cargo ramp.)
Pilot and copilot had ITT AN/AVS-6 ANVIS night-vission goggles.
The helos retained door-mounted M-60D machine-guns when the promised M-240Es failed to arrive.
The helos routinely operated with a single 0.50-in machine-gun on the rear ramp, like that fitted on MH-53J.
One info says that thanks to high temperatures and heavy loads the external fuel tanks were not mounted and crews had to rely on refuelling from HC-130N/P Hercules planes.
They deployed to Saudi Arabia 12/01/91 and returned back to States 21/03/91.
Each helicopter had slightly different camo pattern.
They were stationed at Ras al Mishab at Saudi Arabia. Helicopters accounted 251 missions.
Info from Craig Bergman, CMSgt, USAF retired:
We installed the Sanders AN/ALQ-144(V)3 IRCM jammer and FLIR System Series 2000E/F prior to leaving Davis-Monthan AFB in December.
I was the one that named them MH-3Es as a joke when I arrived in-theater on the ADVON team but the designation took and once adopted and briefed, I let it go.
You are correct regarding the Tracor AN/ALE-40 chaff/flare systems that never got installed and the M-240Es arrived too late to employ due to paperwork.
