Helicopter News

Leonardo Helicopters (formerly AugustaWestland/Finmeccanica) awarded General Dynamics [GD] a contract to update the Stores management Systems (SMS) on the United Kingdom Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters, GD said July 12. The […]

LONGBOW LLC won a $90 million U.S. Army contract to upgrade the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter’s LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR), Lockheed Martin said July 13. LONGBOW is a joint […]

Leonardo Helicopters (formerly AugustaWestland/Finmeccanica) awarded General Dynamics [GD] a contract to provide mission system equipment for Brazil’s Super Lynx helicopter upgrade program, GD said July 13. The helicopter’s cockpit will […]

Most aerospace/defense industry leaders believe that the cyber and unmanned sectors will experience “significant disruption” in the next decade, according to a newly released survey on global competition and innovation. […]

The Navy has begun deploying a new maritime surveillance radar on the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, according to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The milestone with the Telephonics Corp. […]

TransDigm Group Inc. [TDG] on June 23 said it has completed its $1 billion cash acquisition of Data Device Corporation (DDC) from the private equity firm Behrman Capital, adding engineered […]

The U.S. Air Force introduced the first of 21 fully built HH-60G Pave Hawk Operational Loss Replacement (OLR) helicopters at a Huntsville, Alabama ceremony on June 28. The HH-60G helicopter […]

The CH-53K King Stallion helicopter successfully completed a 27,000 pound payload external lift test, prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] said June 23. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is developing the […]