U.S. Army Devises A New Plan For Night Stalkers Aviation Regiment

Helicopter with four soldiers flies over water

The AH/MH-6 Little Bird will see extended service thanks to the cancellation of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft.

Credit: Cpl. Henry Rodriguez/U.S. Marine Corps
The U.S. Army’s broad overhaul of its aviation modernization plans is reverberating within the service’s storied Night Stalkers, a special operations unit that is having to extend the service lives of some choppers and adjust upgrade plans for others. The service announced in February that it was...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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