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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.

About 40% of the aircraft fleet operated by Royal Jordanian Air Force are second-hand aircraft and more than two decades old, but regardless the service has been working to overhaul its main fleets.

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.

Yonhap News reported that DAPA met with Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin.

A new generation of high-speed rotorcraft technology is available for the U.S. Navy, but ship-board limitations already have ruled out the natural option.

Cancellation of the U.S. Army’s scout helicopter program is driving focus on UAS and uncrewed teaming.

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.

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

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

Separate midair collisions within the space of three days have claimed the lives of at least 11 crewmembers who were onboard the four helicopters.

Surprise Chinese attack helicopter appearance highlights worldwide trend despite increase in low-altitude threats.

Looming rotary-wing retirements across the Hellenic armed forces have attracted significant investment under the country’s defense recapitalization.

Greek lawmakers approved the purchase on April 3. Four of the 35 helicopters will serve with the country’s special operations forces.

Norway is to spend an extra 600 billion krone ($56 billion) on defense over the next 12 years, building up a stronger navy and ground-based air defenses.

Greek lawmakers have OK’d the country’s military to purchase 35 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to modernize the army’s rotary-wing fleet.