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UPDATED: US Army UH-60V Cockpit Upgrades Progressing, Despite Some Software Reliability Issues

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Monday, February 4th, 2019

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UPDATED: US Army UH-60V Cockpit Upgrades Progressing, Despite Some Software Reliability Issues

The U.S. Army’s development of more modern cockpits and a digital pilot-vehicle interface for legacy UH-60L Black Hawks is progressing, showing positive performance increasing pilot awareness similarly to the UH-60M cockpit and enhancing navigational functionality compared to the analogue UH-60L, but the digital upgrades do not appreciably improve the survivability of the aircraft, according to the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E). The UH-60V BLACK HAWK is designed to modernize the existing UH-60L analog architecture to a digital infrastructure…

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