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(Photo : Danazar /Wikipedia ) After three years, Bell V-280 Valor achieves 200 flights from testing the advanced vertical lift systems unit. This next generation is derived from the Osprey but with improvements. Bell V-280 Valor, tilt-rotor craft This one of the technology demonstrators designed to illustrate to the US Army what it can do in the Future Vertical Lift capability with the time it has been flown from three years back, said Keith Flail, the company's executive vice president advanced vertical lift systems, reported Defense News. On December 18, 2017, at 1:59 p.m., the Valor tiltr...

(Photo : Sgt. Dana Clarke, U.S. Army/wiki-commons) Finally, Lockheed Martin and Boeing unveiled the Defiant X, the next-generation replacement for the aging UH-60 Black Hawk, its current all-purpose helicopter. Changes in enemy defenses require a new chopper that faster and quieter, with the strong points of the UH-60. Defiant X Candidate for U.S. Army's FLRAA The US Army is looking for another helicopter to replace the Black Hawk, and the Advanced helicopter is a development from its SB>1 demonstrator prototype. Competition for the US Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) contr...