medevac helicopter
Airborne emergency transport
A medevac helicopter is an aircraft equipped for emergency medical transport, carrying injured or critically ill patients from accident scenes, battlefields, or remote locations to hospitals.
The term combines "medical" and "evacuation." These helicopters typically have medical equipment and personnel aboard: The medevac helicopter landed on the hospital roof with the crash victims.
- chopperRotorcraft or cleaver
- air ambulanceEmergency medical aircraft
- life flightEmergency medical helicopter service
- airliftEmergency transport by plane
- rescueSave from harm
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Weaponized military rotorcraft
gunship · Apache helicopter · bomber · weapons platform · fighter aircraft
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