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Why the Army Wants Game-Changing Helicopters One key element among the many innovations likely to inspire much focus is just how can these kinds of massive speed increases be achieved? The Army appears to already be flying a new generation of helicopters about twice as fast as a 150 miles-per-hour Black Hawk, breaking new tactical and strategic ground in preparation for warfare in the 2030s. The now accelerated Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program seeks to expand beyond previous technological boundaries and surge into a new era of aerial warfare capability to include unprecedented speed...

Defiant X: The U.S. Army's New Stealth Helicopter? The Army is looking for a new helicopter and there is much talk about making it smoother and with a lower heat signature. Most Army and industry weapons experts, engineers and innovators may not use the word “stealth” when describing the service’s emerging Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (helicopter) program, yet developers are clear to discuss the merits of thermal signature management and finding ways to lower the aircraft’s radar signature. The Director of Army Futures Command Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional team describe...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Pentagon planners are looking to replace Sikorsky’s Black Hawk, middle-aged and slower than the next generation of helicopters [Hartford Courant] 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, Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., is working with Boeing to develop a utility helicopter that flies at double the speed and twice as far as the Black Hawk. In a competition for a Pentagon contract, they ar...

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By   Jan 28, 2021 05:45 AM EST The Futuristic 'Defiant X' is competing for the U.S. Army's contract as the next high-tech helicopter. It will be fast and with new rotor technology never before seen on convention helicopters. Next-generation helicopters or rotorcraft of the U.S. Army will be based on the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). Winners of the contract will replace current helicopters in use with the U.S. Army. The next-generation helicopter Officials of Sikorsky and Boeing have revealed their next-generation helicopter with a coaxial rotor. It has similarities to the SB1 D...