Sikorsky S-70

Sikorsky’s CEO discussed the company’s new uncrewed H-60 Black Hawk and the Nomad, a scalable rotor-blown-wing uncrewed system.

Airbus Helicopters is in discussions with city and state officials in California over potential sales of its Super Puma family of helicopters.

Turkish Aerospace Industries has revealed the redesign of its 12-metric-ton T925 utility helicopter.

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Supply chain and manufacturing issues have held back the planned first flights of the next two Kaan combat aircraft prototypes.

Poland has canceled a plan to acquire Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk utility helicopters, citing a change in priorities.

Airbus Helicopters has teamed up with Babcock and CAE to offer the H145M twin-engine light helicopter to Poland.

Sikorsky and firefighting technology startup Rain have demonstrated autonomous wildfire suppression using a UH-60 Black Hawk.

United Rotorcraft hopes to gain Transport Canada certification for its Airbus Super Puma firefighting modification package this summer.

California firefighting agencies dispatched scores of aircraft to battle wildfires in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Latin American Military Maritime Helicopter Fleets + Deliveries 2025-2034

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

Video and imagery from Ukraine published Oct. 5 appears to show the secretive, tailless UCAV being engaged and shot down by its fighter escort.

Naval vessels rescued the pilot after he ejected.

Airbus and Lockheed have pulled the plug on their respective efforts to win a UK Defense Ministry competition to introduce a new fleet of medium rotorcraft.

Leonardo Helicopters’ Polish affiliate, PZL-Swidnik, has opened a production line on which AW149 battlefield support rotorcraft will be built for Poland.

A planned fleet of new medium rotorcraft for the UK armed services has been cut in size by a third, industry officials have revealed to lawmakers.

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