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Tough, versatile, and combat-proven — the UH-60 Black Hawk has been the U.S. Army’s go-to utility helicopter for over four decades. In an era of stealth aircraft and drones this Cold War-era ...
In 2024 the service committed to expanding UH-60M buys, but a formal deal has yet to emerge. Sikorsky has proposed an 11th multi-year production contract that would extend UH-60 production to 2032.
The UH-60 Blackhawk benefits from the design and operational combat history of the Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter. The Huey continues to be used in combat aviation for the US Marine Corps.
GE Aerospace was awarded a $517 million contract in February 2019 to develop its T901 engine for ITEP, which will eventually power the Army’s AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
Two years later, Sikorsky Aviation won the bid to supply utility helicopters for the U.S. Army, and the first production Black Hawk variant, the UH-60A, entered service in 1979.
The U.S. Army helicopter that collided midair with a plane, killing 67 people, was a Sikorsky UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopter.
Sikorsky and firefighting technology startup Rain have demonstrated autonomous wildfire suppression using a UH-60 Black Hawk equipped with the helicopter manufacturer’s Matrix flight autonomy ...
Lockheed Martin ‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $5.2 billion contract to build H-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers.
The tiltrotor is part of the Army's plan to modernize its aging fleet of military helicopters. The Army plans to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk with the MV-75 by the 2030s.
The commercial variant of the helicopter — the Sikorsky Black Hawk S-70 — which has a maximum gross weight (GW) of 22,000 lb, can achieve a maximum speed of 163 knots (302 km/hr or 187 mph).