Helicopter News

The Army has widened its interest in the K-MAX unmanned cargo helicopter that has already been deployed to Afghanistan to support Marine Corps operations, a senior Lockheed Martin [LMT] official said […]

Sikorsky [UTX] will respond to the Air Force’s latest attempt to replace its HH-60 helicopter with a modified UH-60M Black Hawk, according to a company official. Tim Healy, Sikorsky’s director […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has designed a new component on the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper’s landing gear that will improve the reliability and performance of the unmanned plane, the company said […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said recently that funding for unmanned systems will be unchanged and in some cases increased, even as the Pentagon braces for some of its sharpest reductions […]

If problems found in early testing are not corrected before initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E)–such as connectivity problems between the AH-64 Apache Block III and the Gray Eagle unmanned […]

Army Special Operations Aviation and the Conventional aviation fleet must continue and deepen their level of understanding of what each force does, but never forget they are different, as the […]

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. [UTX] yesterday said it has chosen 35 companies to fill its team assembling two prototype S-97 Raider ™ helicopters for Army evaluation. Sikorsky and teammates are funding […]

The Army has awarded European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., (EADS) North America a $212.7 million contract to deliver 39 UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) as part of its […]