Despite post-pandemic growth, stalled flagship programs raise questions about whether the commercial market is ready for the next leap in rotorcraft technology.
The County of Los Angeles Fire Department is acquiring an additional two Sikorsky S-70 Firehawk helicopters to bolster its existing fleet of five aircraft.
The rising popularity of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has spread to the U.S. Army, which is now considering the reusable systems to augment crewed rotorcraft.
Sikorsky abstained from bidding the CH-53K to South Korea after failing to get the government to hike the budget, leaving the Boeing CH-47 as the only bidder.
Lockheed Martin’s long tech collaboration with KAI could see development of a military variant of the high-speed X2 rotorcraft platform, a Lockheed exec says.
As flight testing progresses to larger sizes, Sikorsky has renamed its Rotor Blown Wing family of vertical-takeoff-and-landing uncrewed aircraft the Nomad.
Sikorsky on Sept. 26 received the largest order in the history of its CH-53K King Stallion program: a $10.86 billion contract for the heavy-lift choppers.
Leonardo Helicopters engineers are putting the finishing touches to the company’s Proteus uncrewed autonomous helicopter demonstrator ahead of first flight.
The S-97 Raider is a high-speed scout and attack compound helicopter developed by Sikorsky Aircraft, featuring the innovative X2 Technology with a coaxial rotor system.
To Congress, U.S. Army leaders defended a recent proposal to retire about half the Boeing AH-64 Apache fleet and buy more drones in place of helicopters.
The Marines have deployed SpaceX’s Starshield, the military version of its Starlink proliferated system, on the Sikorsky VH-92 presidential helicopter.
