The Defiant is competing against the V-280 Valor, a tiltrotor aircraft from Bell, to be the Army's next Black Hawk-type flying machine.

The Black Hawk, the workhorse in wartime and in natural disasters, is facing a challenge familiar to those in middle age as a new and faster helicopter swoops in to take its place. Its manufacturer… ...

Two American giants of military development, Sikorsky and Boeing, have teamed up for what they are calling a revolutionary helicopter design. The SB>1 Defiant, in the works for years, is finally ...

A Sikorsky-Boeing team announced today that the experimental helicopter prototype competing to replace the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk has completed a flight at nearly 205 knots, or 236 miles per hour ...

The Army is currently considering two advanced rotary-wing aircraft to replace the Black Hawk as part ... SB-1 Defiant. On Wednesday, Sikorsky owner ... Army’s next armed scout helo ...

It is in 2035 that Sikorsky, the maker of the Black Hawk, and Boeing, plan to introduce what could be the successor of the helicopter.And, taking advantage of the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range ...

A pair of the Army’s next-generation rotary-wing engines were delivered to Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky ahead of integration into the UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopter, the company announced ...

Connecticut-based Sikorsky lost out on a $1.3 billion contract that the Army envisions would replace its fleet of Black Hawk helicopters, failing to win over Pentagon brass with its own Defiant-X ...

STRATFORD, CT (WFSB) - Sikorsky comes up short in its bid to build the next generation of Black Hawk helicopters. The Army’s decision to go with a Texas-based company instead means plenty are ...

September 22, 2021 (Security Television Network) — The DEFIANT X Future Long Range Assault Aircraft will “go twice as far, twice as fast and will be twice as maneuverable” as the Black Hawk ...

It remains to be seen whether that will come in the form of the V-280 Valor being put together by Bell, or the Defiant X now being cooked up over at Sikorsky and Boeing.

Sikorsky, competing for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift contract, is looking to meanwhile keep up production of its UH-60 Black Hawk. Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky will produce the 5,000th copy ...