The Army has selected the V-280 Valor to replace its Black Hawk fleet
The Army has officially selected the Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft to replace the beloved UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that has ferried soldiers into combat for the last half-century.
The V-280 Valor beat out the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant compound coaxial helicopter to win the service’s years-long Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition, the service announced on Monday.
Breaking Defense first reported news of the Army’s FLRAA decision.
“The thoughtful and disciplined execution of the FLRAA program strategy will deliver the transformational capabilities we need to support the Joint force, strengthen deterrence and win in multi-domain operations,” Douglas Bush, the assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, said in a news release.
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To two big ones.
I’ll be glad when the technology is available that we don’t need rotors.
The Iran hostage attempt. Kurt Muse rescue. Antelope Island crash, Oct 3 Mogadishu, OBL Raid.
That’s a quick off the top of my head.