Helicopter News

Boeing [BA], General Electric [GE] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] would benefit as prime contractors from a proposed $598 million sale to Saudi Arabia of AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters and associated […]

Egypt wants to buy more than $560 million in United Technologies [UTX] General Electric [GE] UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, Raytheon‘s [RTN] TOW 2A anti-armor guided missiles and General Dynamics [GD] […]

The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.’s (EADS) Eurocopter unit recently said it had successfully completing a firing campaign using the Spike air-to-ground missle as part of the development of […]

Canadian Forces will receive six U.S. Chinook helicopters, an essential capability supporting their Afghanistan operations, while the U.S. Army supports a coalition partner and interoperability under a Letter of Offer […]

Technical problems and delays on a Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) system led to the Sept. 4 announcement that the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) and Boeing [BA] Australia agreed […]

New UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopters (LUH) fielding to the Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida National Guard units are mission ready, according to officials. Mississippi and Lousiana each now have four […]

By Ann Roosevelt Canadian Forces will receive six U.S. Chinook helicopters, an essential capability supporting their Afghanistan operations, while the U.S. Army supports a coalition partner and interoperability under a […]

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the Navy flew one of its two Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) platforms to take pictures of damaged areas and search for survivors, […]