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Malaysia has terminated its leasing contract with Aerotree Defense and Services for four Sikorsky UH-60A+ Black Hawk helicopters over failure to deliver.

Sikorsky has won a contract from the U.S. to build more than 70 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to be exported to Austria, Brazil, Greece, Sweden and Thailand.

The T901 engine, first developed for reengining the Black Hawk and the AH-64 Apache, was tapped to be installed on FARA before the Army canceled that program.

The Total Defense bill notes that the process of making a decision on the future combat aircraft will require broad political support.

The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has shortlisted the Leonardo AW149 as the preferred replacement for its fleet of aging Sikorsky S-61 Nuri helicopters.

Australia is working to modernize, upgrade, and strengthen its strategic capabilities across the spectrum of its missions and the work is beginning to show.

When the U.S. Army began developing a utility helicopter in the 1960s, it faced the unenviable task of replacing arguably the most storied rotorcraft to date.

Part of the challenge of wildfire response is detecting a fire and dispatching first responders to remote areas before it reaches an inflection point.

After killing the UH-60V Black Hawk upgrade, the Army has embarked on a nose-to-tail upgrade of the UH-60M.

The Black Hawk has spawned numerous variants and derivations over its 50-year career.

KAI and Korean Air Aerospace Division have signed MOUs to support their bids to upgrade 36 of the country's Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawks for special operations.

The service hopes to progress on F/A-18, T-45 and MH-60 replacements, though ship- and submarine-building requirements are likely to take priority.

The signing of the Milestone B acquisition decision memorandum earlier this week comes 20 months after Bell won a four-year-long competition.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force spent the latter half of the 2010s working to divest itself of aircraft programs in an effort to slow an oncoming budgetary crisis in the country. But notwithstanding constrained funding, the need for a strong regional bloc to counterbalance growing instability in the region remains strong.

Senate appropriators are seeking to reverse some of the Pentagon’s proposed development cutbacks as part of an $852.2 billion fiscal 2025 defense spending bill.

Portugal has joined the growing number of Southern European countries in modernizing its aerial firefighting fleet with De Havilland Canada’s DHC-515 amphibian.

Swedish defense materiel agency FMV announced July 10 that it has signed a contract to buy 12 additional UH-60Ms.

The next U.S. Army multiyear contract for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks is expected to include up to 255 helicopters over five years starting in 2027.

Austria has signed a contract to buy 12 Sikorsky Black Hawk utility helicopters.

Sikorsky and GE Aerospace are beginning the installation and testing of T901 engines on U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

NH90 manufacturer NHIndustries is urging the Swedish government not to retire the country’s fleet of the helicopters early and replace them with UH-60s.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The U.S. State Department has approved a Swedish top-up purchase of Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters.

With FARA canceled and FLRAA’s design changed, U.S. Special Operations Command is adjusting its own modernization goals.