Helicopter News

Bell Helicopter [TXT] completed the final delivery of eight Bell 412EP helicopters to the Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) at a ceremony at Villamor Air Base, the company said […]

The Army on Aug 12 awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $21.7 million contract to upgrade cockpit displays in the AH-64E Apache attacks helicopters. The contract is the fourth lot of […]

Army Reserve Commander Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley agrees with the Army’s controversial plan to transfer all AH-64 Apache gunships to the active component and that utility helicopters are better suited […]

The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) suggests the service consider using open architectures (OA) to help keep costs down if it eventually decides to modify unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) […]

Textron [TXT] on July 28 posted higher net income in its second quarter due to strong results in its airplane making segment and lower interest and corporate expenses although sales […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] locked up a $66.3 million contract for the next stage of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) competition, which will replace the ubiquitous Hellfire missile currently used by […]

In order to develop its future vertical lift (FVL) platforms in a timely and affordable manner without having the helicopters become obsolete before they ever see combat, the Army must […]

Israel completed a nearly decade-long life extension project on the Sikorsky [UTX] CH-53 helicopter, The Israeli Air Force (IAF) said July 30. Israel’ CH-53s, known as the Yas’ur, began to […]