Helicopter News

Keeping the F-35’s development program healthy in this age of budget uncertainty is probably the Defense Department’s biggest priority, according to key Air Force general. Office of the Assistant Secretary […]

Sikorsky [UTX] recently said the Colombian army has formally inducted five new Sikorsky S-70i multi-mission helicopters into its fleet of Black Hawk aircraft. Colombia is the first South American country […]

The Air Force exceeded by three years a goal to reduce aviation fuel consumption by 10 percent, according to the service’s number two civilian. Air Force Acting Under Secretary Jamie […]

An Iranian F-4 fighter approached a U.S. Predator MQ-1 unmanned aerial vehicle flying in international airspace over the Persian Gulf earlier recently before turning back following a verbal warning, the […]

The Navy has ordered six of the latest Fire Scout unmanned helicopters that feature a larger airframe than those already deployed with the fleet are intended to fly and remain […]

MD Helicopters Inc. (MDHI) recently said its new MD 540F, a candidate for any potential Army Armed Scout Helicopter program, successfully completed the first phase of live fire exercises. The […]

Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland this week took the wraps off its Project Zero—a tiltrotor technology demonstrator already secretly flown over the past two years. The demonstrator was designed and built in less […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] in February completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS, JSTARS) […]

Textron– [TXT] subsidiary Bell Helicopter qualified BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS) for use on its 407GT helicopter after completing guided shots, according to a BAE statement. A […]