NASHVILLE — Two “major delays” in the deliveries of Boeing [BA] AH-64E re-manufactured helicopters to soldiers and other parts problems with Army helicopters, such as the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Sikorsky UH-60 and the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, have undercut readiness, according to Lt. Gen. ...
Dan Parsons
NASHVILLE — The Boeing [BA]-Sikorsky built SB-1 Defiant technology demonstrator is set to undertake its third flight in the next 10 days to accomplish frequency sweeps and to check several other areas, including the aircraft’s active vibration control system and its hover out of ground ...
AVX Aircraft Company and L3 Technologies [LLL] on April 15 unveiled a compound coaxial helicopter design with forward facing ducted fans and a side-by-side cockpit as the team’s pitch for the U.S. Army’s future attack helicopter. The design does not have a name, but will compete against several ...
ROCKFORD, Ill.–A new $50 million high-voltage lab, “The Grid,” being built by Collins Aerospace here, will serve as the design and testing center for developing a 1-megawatt (MW) motor, motor controller and battery system for a hybrid electric demonstrator aircraft. Executives from ...
The Army could have a speedy, long-range Black Hawk replacement within 10 years, provided the service sticks to its own schedule, as long as the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) comes in at about $40 million per copy, according to a request for information (RFI) from industry published ...
A potential $2.6 billion foreign military sale of two dozen UH-60R Seahawks to India was approved April 2 by the U.S. State Department. Seahawk naval multi-mission helicopters, made by Sikorsky, will allow India to perform anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare and secondary missions including ...
