A Sikorsky-Boeing team has submitted its Defiant X rotorcraft proposal “early” for the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) programme. The bid comes as flight testing continues on the ...
A Sikorsky/Boeing team has completed mission profile test flights with the SB-1 Defiant demonstrator related to the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition. The work included ...
Sooner or later, the U.S. Army will get to play around with something it now calls the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). It remains to be seen whether that will come in the form of the V-280 ...
Lockheed Martin says it has completed a series of mission profile tests of the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant rotorcraft demonstrator as the U.S. Army continues evaluating competing bids for the Future ...
Sikorsky and Boeing have taken the wraps off their Defiant X offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft requirement, and the design differs only in detail externally from the SB-1 ...
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Why US Army scrapped its fastest helicopter ever

The SB-1 Defiant pushed helicopter design beyond 200 knots with its coaxial rotor and pusher propeller system, redefining ...
They call it Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), and it’s the name given by the U.S. Army and several defense contractors to a program that will see, among others, the replacement of the aging ...
Despite a delay stemming from the Army source-selection board’s self-audit of its choice of Bell’s V-280 Valor as its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft which pushed the award announcement into early ...
The U.S. Army is currently evaluating several industry offerings for its new Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), a program intended to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The FLRAA, a ...