Helicopter News

Days after submitting a Request for Information (RFI) proposal to the Navy for an unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) system, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) recently unveiled […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Textron‘s [TXT] Bell Helicopter division have teamed to develop and demonstrate a new medium- range vertical unmanned aircraft system (VUAS) called Fire-X that will be offered […]

The Navy is studying efforts to develop a single ground station for unmanned air systems (UAS) as well as a common command and control (C2) architecture for all unmanned systems, […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy will deploy the first EA-18G Growler squadron from a land-based location in support of ground troops, according to a service official. Additionally, the service’s vertical […]

One-time presidential helicopter competitors Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Sikorsky [UTX] have teamed up for the Navy’s latest foray to replace the terminated VH-71, according to the two companies. Additionally, the […]

FORT WORTH, Texas—AAI Corp. [TXT] is moving quickly to retrofit improvements on their Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (TUAS), a company official said. Reliability improvements, a re-winging effort and fitting […]

FORT WORTH, Texas–Army aviation is tweaking its organization, designing a Full Spectrum Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), a service official said. Last week, the Army Chief of Staff approved moving ahead […]

FORT WORTH, Texas— The Army unveiled its “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap 2010-2035” at the Army Aviation Association of America annual conference here. Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli said […]