All Helicopters articles – Page 120

  • News

    USAF’s Small UAS roadmap calls for swarming ‘kamikaze’ drones

    2016-05-04T14:33:10Z

    If the US Air Force needed to break into places like Iran, North Korea, Russia or China, it would overwhelm those countries' integrated air defence systems with tens of thousands of small and relatively cheap small unmanned aircraft acting as jammers, decoys, cameras and “kamikazes”.

  • Textron Shadow Mark 2/M2 James Drew/Flight Interna
    News

    Textron pushing Shadow M2 airframe as it signs final V2 contracts

    2016-05-04T14:20:49Z

    ​The US Army has put Textron Systems on contract to update all but two of its RQ-7 Shadows to the all-digital Version 2 system, and a deal for those remaining aircraft operated by the National Guard should be forthcoming later this year, says the manufacturer’s vice-president of tactical unmanned aircraft ...

  • X-47B dry ARR connection - NAVAIR
    News

    USN expects more development of MQ-25 'CBARS' timeline this year

    2016-05-03T19:55:31Z

    A risk-reduction request for proposals (RfP) for the US Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned air vehicle acquisition is expected to be released “this summer”, which will help set out the timeline in which the service can realistically expect the tanker system to be deployed on-board its carrier fleet.

  • AW101 Norway debut - AgustaWestland
    News

    Leonardo unveils lightweight Osprey AESA radar

    2016-05-03T15:57:43Z

    ​Europe’s newly-renamed Leonardo Airborne & Space Systems has expanded its product portfolio, announcing a new lightweight active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been selected by a trio of customers.

  • Scorpion - Textron AirLand
    News

    Scorpion readied for another starring role at Farnborough

    2016-05-03T15:00:34Z

    A production version of the Textron AirLand Scorpion jet with a modified wing and landing gear is coming together in the same Wichita facility where the demonstrator was secretly constructed over an 18-month period three years ago.

  • Textron Systems says it has successfully demonstra
    News

    Textron demonstrates VTOL Aerosonde as it snags US Army Shadow contract

    2016-05-03T14:22:54Z

    ​Textron Systems says it has successfully demonstrated a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) with its Aerosonde unmanned air vehicle using the hybrid quadcopter technology that it is pursuing along with Latitude Engineering and Cloud Cap Technology.

  • Skeldar UAS - Saab
    News

    UMS Skeldar confident about V200's chances going into Australian navy downselect

    2016-05-03T11:51:11Z

    ​UMS Skeldar is awaiting the results of a Royal Australian Navy competition for an unmanned rotorcraft, which it is confident will be filled by its V200 unmanned air vehicle.

  • News

    Lockheed, Northrop to supply radars for Indian AH-64Es

    2016-05-03T02:36:52Z

    The US Army has awarded Longbow LLC a foreign military sale (FMS) contract to furnish India with 12 fire control radars (FCRs) for its future fleet of Boeing AH-64E attack helicopters.

  • Karem Aircraft UTR36. James Drew/Flight Internatio
    News

    Karem readies optimum-speed tiltrotor for FVL

    2016-05-01T16:59:11Z

    Sometime in 2018 or 2019, Karem Aircraft will power up what it believes should be the American military’s next vertical lift system, the company’s patented optimum-speed tiltrotor.

  • Piasecki Aircraft PA61-4N. James Drew/Flight Inter
    News

    Piasecki touts winged compound helicopters for Future Vertical Lift

    2016-05-01T00:09:40Z

    Piasecki Aircraft chief executive John Piasecki sees an enduring place for the company’s winged compound helicopters within the US Army’s Future Vertical Lift strategy despite the robust competition that has emerged between compound coaxial and tiltrotor types currently engaged in a Joint MultiRole technology demonstration effort.

  • AVX Aircraft Tiltrotor. AVX
    News

    AVX would replace heavy-lift Chinook with tiltrotor

    2016-04-30T16:13:30Z

    ​The US Army is in no hurry to replace the venerable Boeing CH-47 Chinook that has carried its soldiers into battle since the Vietnam War, but when it does finally decide to move on, AVX Aircraft would offer up a 27.2t (60,000lb) tiltrotor replacement with 13.4m (44ft) propellors.

  • V-280
    News

    US military leaders call for next generation of FVL rotorcraft

    2016-04-30T16:09:51Z

    The deputy commander of US Pacific Command says the Army must field next-generation aircraft with greater range, speed and survivability than is achievable with today’s helicopter inventory.

  • Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion. Sikorsky Image
    News

    Boeing remains confident in Chinook as CH-53K enters market

    2016-04-30T10:38:21Z

    Boeing’s vice-president of heavy-lift helicopter programmes Steve Parker says the CH-47 Chinook is well positioned to compete for international orders against the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion as the two face off in Germany, which is looking to replace its outdated fleet of CH-53Gs beginning in 2022. Barring any potential ...

  • News

    AVX reveals new attack helicopter configuration for FVL Light

    2016-04-30T03:42:35Z

    ​AVX Aircraft of Benbrook, Texas has responded to the US Army’s request for information on the smallest of five planned Future Vertical Lift (FVL) capability sets with two 7.5t (16,700lb) winged coaxial compound helicopter configurations that the company’s chief executive describes as vertical takeoff fighter aircraft for light reconnaissance, attack, ...

  • KC-390 - Brazilian air force
    News

    Embraer optimistic on Brazil order as KC-390 makes progress

    2016-04-29T16:13:43Z

    ​Embraer has made several strides in the KC-390 flight test programme in the last week, but Brazil’s political turmoil has clouded the tanker-transport’s only contract in uncertainty.

  • Royal Thai Navy H145Ms - Claas Belling Airbus Heli
    News

    Thai navy accepts first pair of H145M rotorcraft

    2016-04-29T12:04:19Z

    ​Thailand’s navy has completed the technical acceptance of its first two H145M rotorcraft from Airbus Helicopters, with the airframer now set to begin training the service’s pilots on the multirole type.

  • A flight crew launches a U.S. Army's Joint Land At
    News

    Death knell for Raytheon's 'runaway' aerostat

    2016-04-28T19:30:26Z

    It was a scene that captivated America. On 28 October, one of two US Army aerostats broke free of its mooring at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and proceeded on a wild journey north through Pennsylvania, dragging a 6,700ft (2km) tether over powerlines as it went.

  • An F-35 aircraft arrives April 15 at Hill Force Ba
    Analysis

    ​ANALYSIS: House panel approves funds for 11 F-35s and 14 F/A-18s

    2016-04-28T16:16:40Z

    The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II might be the world’s costliest and most divisive warplane, but there’s something to be said for the seemingly Teflon-coated Joint Strike Fighter’s resiliency.

  • F-35
    News

    F-35 office has 2,590 staff and $70 million annual budget

    2016-04-27T20:15:24Z

    ​It takes 2,590 military personnel, government civilians and full-time equivalent contractors and $70 million per year to run the world’s largest and most expensive military aircraft programme, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

  • The F-117A Nighthawk, the world's first attack air
    News

    Congress appears ready to let the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk go

    2016-04-27T18:07:06Z

    The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is considering a legislative provision that would allow the US Air Force to finally junk the famed Lockheed Martin F-117A Nighthawk.