Helicopter News

As the new Sikorsky [UTX] UH-60M Black Hawk enters the Army inventory, products the helicopter has in common with the CH-47 Chinook and planned for the Block III Apache, both […]

Applying the lessons from the first go-around, the Air Force will do more to maintain a continual dialogue with industry throughout the process of evaluating the proposals for the service’s […]

Textron [TXT] said recently it has acquired 85 percent of the stock of United Industrial Corp. [UIC] as it nears the end of its $1.1 billion acquisition of the defense […]

Early next year the Army is expected to bring unmanned aerial systems (UAS) controls into the AH-64D Apache Block II to increase situational awareness and shorten the sensor- to-shooter timeline, […]

A Lockheed Martin [LMT] official says the success of the Hellfire missile will generate production of thousands more of the missiles once the president’s budget and supplemental come to fruition. […]

The Marine Corps’ decision to switch to United Industrial Corp. [UIC] AAI unit’s Shadow unmanned aerial system (UAS) will enable the service to field a third unmanned aircraft squadron (VMU) […]

Northstar Aerospace Inc.’s subsidiary, Northstar Aerospace (Canada) Inc. recently announced it received a four year, potential $26 million contract from Boeing [BA] to complete the development and flight certification of […]

Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) has been testing two of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) from the Navy’s experimental test bed ship Stiletto to determine command and control capabilities and the […]