Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary plans to resume test efforts for a high-speed helicopter designed to support a U.S. Army initiative, FlightGlobal reported Sunday.

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Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary expect the SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter to have the initial flight in December, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The two companies have teamed up to design and propose the aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The service considers Defiant and the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FVL initiative. Randy Rotte, director of FVL […] More

Helicopters are one of the most innovative inventions that changed the game for defense, warfighting, transportation, and disaster relief missions. Many models have been invented to fulfill various government efforts, but the Sikorsky line of helicopters is one that has proven to be a consistent force to be reckoned with when it comes to defending […] More

Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has completed the prototype build of a tiltrotor aircraft platform designed for the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program under the U.S. Army‘s Future Vertical Lift initiative. Bell said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate its V-280 Valor offering this fall through a maiden flight test. Lockheed Martin built V-280’s cockpit, avionics, distributed aperture system […] More

Tim Malia, director of future vertical lift-light at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told The War Zone in an interview published Wednesday about the X2 helicopter technology and its potential role in the development of FVL aircraft. “The term X2 technology refers to a suite of technologies developed by Sikorsky that enable the X2 aircraft to operate at high speed while improving operational capability, maneuverability, agility, survivability, and lethality at the landing zone,” Malia said.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary has conducted a flight demonstration of its proposed offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday. The pilots flew the V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft on Thursday at Bell’s flight research center in Arlington, Va., 10 months after the plane made its initial flight at the company’s Amarillo, Texas-based […] More