Sikorsky MH-60/UH-60

Rain Industries has demoed the capability for automated rapid initial wildfire attack by remotely commanding a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter via satellite.

The Chilean Air Force is embarking on a replacement program for its Bell UH-1H single-turbine helicopters that have been in service for more than 50 years.

The decision by the Government Accountability Office clears Bell to resume development of the V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FLRAA program.

The test of the Software Programmable Open Mission Systems Compliant radio terminal was developed under an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center contract.

NHIndustries, the consortium building the NH90 military helicopter, has offered to resolve technical issues faced by its customer Norway for free.

Norway has decided to purchase Sikorsky’s MH-60R helicopter as a replacement for the NHIndustries NH90s that Oslo permanently grounded last summer.

DARPA will start a new program aimed at high-speed, runway-independent aircraft.

The Taliban claims to have repaired about half of the U.S.-provided aircraft that were damaged during the final days of the American withdrawal from Kabul.

A U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk on a training flight Feb. 15 crashed in Huntsville, Alabama, killing two people on board.

Australia ditches problematic European choppers for U.S. ones.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 shot down an unidentified flying object off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10.

Lockheed Martin's supplemental protest entered the protest docket on Feb. 6, or 40 days after the Sikorsky parent filed the first complaint against the Army.

Sikorsky is looking ahead to applying its X2 coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter technology to commercial aircraft.

The delivery comes 44 years after the twin-engine platform was first fielded by the Army and 49 years since the first flight in October 1974.

Confirmation of the order is the final nail in the coffin for Australia's problematic NHIndustries NH90 helicopter, known locally as the MRH-90 Taipan.

With the U.S. Army looking to maintain the capability of its legacy helicopter fleet even as it moves to modernize the force with advanced rotorcraft, continued progress with a new engine program is becoming crucial to its plans.

Lithuania has signed contracts to purchase U.S.-supplied Black Hawk helicopters to replace Soviet-era rotorcraft.

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) suggests to heavily upgrading the Surion for a program that could greatly enlarge the South Korean army’s utility helicopter fleet

The deal with India was cleared by the State Department roughly 13 months ago.

An operational flight test trainer will reside at Moody AFB in Georgia and a weapon system trainer in Kirtland AFB in New Mexico.

The U.S. Army is seeking $513.5 million in fiscal 2021 for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, up from $398.3 in fiscal 2020, the first year of the program

The biggest change is in procurement of the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk, which is reduced as planned to 36 aircraft from 74 in 2020.

Local production of the Sikorsky UH-60J has suffered the largest cut in the defense budget for the coming fiscal year OK'd by Japan.