The U.S. Army is close to finalizing the design of a new helicopter intended to replace the iconic Black Hawk, and it's built to fly nearly twice as fast and twice as far. Developed by Bell, the ...

The Army plans to continue flying the Black Hawk for the next several years as it fast-tracks the ... as the Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, chosen over the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant X. The ...

The Army selected the V-280 tiltrotor from Bell and Lockheed Martin, beating out the SB>1 Defiant, a coaxial rotor helicopter submitted by Sikorsky and Boeing. The win for the V-280 has the ...

Sikorsky on Jan. 29 said it has started ground runs with the new GE Aerospace [GE] T901 engines integrated on a Black Hawk helicopter, ahead of the first test flight later this year.

Its speed is roughly twice that of the Black Hawk, making it a very attractive replacement. When used in battle, its anticipated combat range will be much lower, somewhere between 580 and 920 ...

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $91.3M contract to engineer and provide other support services for the U.S. Army’s H-60 Black Hawk fleet.

Two years later, Sikorsky Aviation won the bid to supply utility helicopters for the U.S. Army, and the first production Black Hawk variant, the UH-60A, entered service in 1979.

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $5.2 billion contract to build H-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers.. The ...

The Sikorsky-Boeing entry, the Defiant X, featured a coaxial rotor system. Bell ultimately secured the contract. The Black Hawk has served the U.S. Army for over four decades—now it's set to be ...