US Air Force: Bell V-280 aircraft flies with system that can see through Objects like aircraft's itself
Bell’s experimental V-280 Valor tiltrotor, built for a U.S. Army technology demonstration, has flown for the first time with an integrated system that provides the pilots and aircrew a 360-degree view through the skin of the aircraft. V-280 aircraft At the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual summit, Lockheed Martin displayed footage collected from its Pilotage Distributed Aperture System’s first flight over central Texas on the V-280 . PDAS “is the first fully integrated tactical distributed aperture system in the hist…
Rolls-Royce to Supply propulsion system for new US Army Aircraft
Rolls-Royce is to provide the propulsion system for a new aircraft which will form part of the US Army's long-range assault program. The Derby-headquartered company has reached agreement with Bell Textron Inc, a Textron Inc company, to provide the system for the V-280 Valor aircraft as it moves forward in the competition for the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Program. Rolls-Royce will manufacture the engines for the refined V-280 Valor design as well as an advanced Infrared Suppressor system to deliver greater …
US Air Force: Adopting Army’s Future Vertical Lift program
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is keeping an eye on the Army’s next-generation rotorcraft program, which could fill a gap for agile airlift that might be needed in a fight against Russia and China, an Air Force general said Thursday. With its large air bases vulnerable to attacks from a near-peer adversary, there’s no guarantee that the Air Force will be able to rely on its current processes or equipment to transfer supplies in and out of air bases. In a war with China or Russia , the U.S. Air Force would distribute its assets to bases ow…
US Army's JMR Program Kicks Off; Two Contracts Awarded
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks after announcing that it was pushing back the initial selection of the technology demonstrator phase of the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program and working to forge a closer relationship with industry, the US Army awarded two development contracts for the effort on Tuesday. The winning bidders were the team of Sikorsky and Boeing with their SB>1 Defiant medium-lift helicopter, and Textron’s Bell Helicopter, which submitted its V-280 Valor tiltrotor design to the Army. In October, the Army prov…
US Army triggers competition for future long-range assault aircraft
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has launched its future long-range assault aircraft competition, quietly releasing a request for proposals limited to two industry teams. The service has also homed in on a schedule to deliver FLRAA prototypes after debating two different options to stay on schedule. The service weighed the option of pursuing both prototype builds for the airframe and the weapons systems at the same time, or on slightly separate schedules, which would have meant the difference between delivering full prototypes to the Army by the s…
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