Aerospace-components maker WHI Global LLC is planning to hire more than 40 people and build a facility in Enfield, as one of its subsidiaries has signed contracts with Stratford-based Sikorsky to ...

The U.S. Army is close to finalizing the design of a new helicopter intended to replace the iconic Black Hawk, and it's built to fly nearly twice as fast and twice as far. Developed by Bell ...

The helicopter is known for its versatility ... for superior navigation and communication. Sikorsky’s design for the Black Hawk incorporates a four-bladed, fully articulated main rotor and ...

Bell's V-280 Valor rotorcraft, designated the MV-75, is designed to fly faster and longer than the UH-60 Black Hawk ...

The reveal of a black budget military project with futuristic technologies raises an important question: What else is the military funding that the public doesn’t know about?

The Valor combines the vertical lift capabilities of a helicopter with the ... 320 mph — nearly double the Black Hawk’s top speed of 175 mph. This hybrid design, enabled by tiltrotor ...

But the official U.S. Army website and Lockheed Martin, which has owned Sikorsky since 2015, said the current UH/HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter is a far more capable and sophisticated design ...

With second-generation tiltrotor design, the aircraft’s speed and ... NurPhoto//Getty Images A United States Black Hawk helicopter manoeuvres during a combined field artillery live fire exercise ...

The Army operates roughly 2,000 Black Hawk helicopters ... to “reduce and restructure manned attack helicopter formations,” as well as design them to work in coordination with drone swarms.

The radio altimeter on board the Black Hawk at the time of the deadly midair collision read 278 feet, Homendy said. That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ...