Helicopter News
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Army
Lockheed Martin To Lead Vuit-2 Apache Program Through 2009
Lockheed Martin [LMT] this week said it will lead the Apache Video from Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Interoperability Teaming-Level 2 (VUIT-2) program through September 2009. The Apache VUIT-2 system receives […]
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Army
Iraq Wants To Spend $2.4 Billion on Helicopters, Munitions,
Iraq wants to spend as much as $2.4 billion to buy helicopters, related munitions and associated equipment and services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress July 30. Bell […]
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Army
The Need For Combat Aviation Continues, Increases, General Says
By Ann Roosevelt Army aviation continues to be needed and requested in Afghanistan and Iraq and the top service aviator says he sees no change coming anytime soon. "I don’t […]
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Army
Boeing Apache Block III Prototype Racks Up Hours Testing New Capabilities
By Ann Roosevelt Boeing‘s [BA] prototype AH-64D Apache Block III PVD-Model 27 has accrued 12 hours as it incrementally tests the latest capabilities that will significantly improve the multi-mission helicopter. […]
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Army
Boeing Apache Helicopter Goes Green
By Ann Roosevelt Boeing‘s [BA] AH-64 Apache helicopter program has implemented the use of chromium-free primer on the helicopter as part of the company’s strategic decision to pioneer environmentally progressive […]
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Boeing A160 Hummingbird To Participate In C4ISR Tests
MESA, Ariz.–A Boeing [BA] A160 Hummingbird vertical take-off unmanned aerial system will be part of a command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) On-The-Move event later this year […]
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GA-ASI Expands Cobham Ties With U.K. Reaper Support Partnership
FARNBOROUGH, England–Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) giant General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) recently said it entered a teaming relationship with the United Kingdom segment of Cobham on a whole-life support […]