A Chinook could probably lift your home right out of its foundation. You know that?

It won’t, because it’s not what the Boeing CH-47 was designed for, or used for, because it (and many others like it) belongs to the United States military — and they exist to protect you, not lift your abode hundreds of feet in the air.

The Chinook is used, however, to lift other enormously heavy things, like the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in the following clip, which gets lifted by the mightier chopper in Kuwait.

Keep in mind a Black Hawk weighs around 10,000 pounds …

The video is from Foxtrot Alpha via the 40th Combat Aviation Brigade’s Public Affairs office, which shot the incredible operation not too long ago.

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“The Chinook has a triple hook system, which provides stability to large external loads or the capacity for multiple external loads,” as explained byMilitary.com. “Large external loads such as 155mm howitzers can be transported at speeds up to [about 160 MPH] using the triple hook load configuration. Multiple external loads can be delivered to two or three separate destinations in one sortie.”

The maximum capacity of those hooks is 26,000 pounds, putting this stripped-down Black Hawk well within the Chinook’s capability.

The aircraft is lifted by two mighty T55 turboshaft engines with over 4,000 shp (power delivered to aircraft propellors) spinning rotors that span 60 feet in diameter.

According to Boeing and the military, 33 people can ride in a Chinook along with the crew of three it takes to operate the hefty double-rotor aircraft.