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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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).