AAAA Summit 2024

Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.

Piasecki Aircraft has unveiled a small air-launched UAV designed to glide autonomously from altitude and deliver logistics payloads.

Leonardo diverted the latest new-build TH-73A Thrasher training helicopter for the U.S. Navy for display at the Army Aviation Association of America summit.

MD Helicopters is expanding the weapons capability of its AH530 Cayuse Warrior light attack scout helicopter to include Lockheed's AGM-112 Hellfire missile.

Airbus is proposing an uncrewed logistics version of the UH-72B Lakota.

An updated model of the Bell V-280 shows that the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) design is evolving from the demonstrator that won the competition.

The Mojave started with the U.S. Marine Corps as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) UAS.

The U.S. Army announced April 24 that it awarded options to both Griffon Aerospace and Textron Systems to conduct flight demonstrations for its Future Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft System (FTUAS) program.

U.S. Army is beginning a plan to tailor each of its Combat Aviation Brigades (CAB) to individual missions.

Sikorsky President Paul Lemmo says the RBW is part of the company’s overall push for hybrid electric VTOL designs.

The dual rotor design was the key feature for the company’s Raider X and SB-1 Defiant proposals.

The U.S. Air Force announced April 24 that it selected General Atomics and Anduril to continue designs for the first phase of its CCA program.

Boeing will in the coming weeks deliver the first procurement the heavy-lift CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters to the U.S. Army.

DARPA is likely to make a down select for a high-speed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype program within weeks.

The U.S. Army within the past few weeks ran a GE Aerospace T901 engine on Sikorsky’s Raider X prototype to evaluate it.

The service has shifted its thinking on launched effects, planning to add them to vehicles and ships as well as helicopters.

The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a major sustainment contract for its future high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) fleet.

Strafing ground targets is normally a capability exercised by human pilots, but now a large U.S.-made uncrewed aircraft system has demonstrated the capability.