Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low Blackout

Movie plot

In the 2007 live-action film, Blackout is the first active Decepticon (and first Transformer) to be seen. Early in the film, he, along with his minion Scorponok, attacks the SOCCENT Forward Operations Centre in Qatar, disguised as a MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopter, tail number 4500 X, that was apparently shot down over Afghanistan three months earlier. Blackout is escorted to the base by two F-22 jet fighters, where he transforms and single-handedly obliterates the base. He attempts to hack into the base's system to download data on the location of the Allspark and Megatron, only to have the hardline to the system cut by Colonel Sharp. He then deploys Scorponok, sending him after a fleeing Captain William Lennox and his team. Later, Blackout is seen rallying with the other Decepticons to Starscream's call, after Frenzy discovers the Allspark in the Hoover Dam. Arriving in Mission City during the final battle, Blackout attacks Sam, who is saved by the timely intervention of Ironhide. Later he attempts to kill Sam with his rotor weapon. Towards the end of the battle he attempts to ambush Optimus Prime from behind while he is preoccupied fighting Megatron; however, he is attacked by Captain Lennox and his team, the former racing underneath him on a motorcycle and firing at him with a sabot round, along with human pilots in F-22s firing a barrage of missiles from the air, eventually killing him. (The events of "Starscream's Militia" and Alliance issue #2 occur next.) His corpse is disposed of in the Laurentian Abyss, along with Megatron and the other fallen Decepticons.

Sub-group Fast Action Battlers, Micro Vehicles, Voyagers
Rank 8
Partner Scorponok
Motto "He who cares for the opinions of others is lost."
Alternate Modes MH-53 Pave Low helicopter, Cybertronian spacecraft
Series Transformers film series
English voice actor Brian Stepanek (animated prequel)
Noah Nelson

General characteristics

* Crew: 6 (two pilots, two flight engineers and two aerial gunners)
* Capacity: 37 troops (55 in alternate configuration)
* Length: 88 ft (28 m)
* Rotor diameter: 72 ft (21.9 m)
* Height: 25 ft (7.6 m)
* Empty weight: 32,000 lb (14,515 kg)
* Max takeoff weight: 46,000 lb (50,000 lb in war time) (21,000 kg)
* Powerplant: 2× T64-GE-100 turboshaft, 4,330 shp (3,230 kW) each
* Rotor system: 6 blades

Performance

* Maximum speed: 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h)
* Cruise speed: 150 kt (173 mph, 278 km/h)
* Range: 600 nmi (1,100 km) can be extended with in-flight refueling
* Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,900 m)

Armament

* Any combination of three 7.62 mm M134 Miniguns and/or .50 BMG (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns mounted on left and right sides (immediately behind flight deck) and ramp