Bell's V-280 tiltrotor has been chosen as the winner of the Army's FLRAA competition to partially replace the H-60 Black Hawk. It’s official. Yesterday, the U.S. Army announced it has selected Bell ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Bell’s achievement with the V-280 helicopters is an indicator as to how unmanned capability is growing ubiquitous in modern military systems. In December 2019, Bell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army modernization officials are evaluating two experimental aircraft under FVL for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, or ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If more advanced algorithms for operating in a combat environment can be developed, an autonomous option could make employing a tiltrotor on riskier attack or ...

The U.S. Army has picked a tiltrotor aircraft to satisfy its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program—one that offers major performance advantages over the existing UH-60 Blackhawk. The V-280 Valor ...

There is presently only one tiltrotor military aircraft in operation, and that’s the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey. The machine just passed an important milestone in March, reaching the 600,000 flight hours ...

Later this summer, the U.S. Army is expected to release a Request for Proposals for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. That would be the program that seeks to create the next ...

Bell has installed a Tactical Common Datalink on the V-280 Valor tiltrotor, a communications device that can pass back targeting data to precision long-range weapons. The company conducted ...

Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...

ARLINGTON, Texas—Bell is preparing to demonstrate the autonomous flight capability of its V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor, under the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role precursor to the Future Long-Range ...

The Bell V-280 Valor technology demonstrator has retired from flight but will live on in the company's solution it will soon submit to the Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition.

The Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor technology demonstrator flies along a shoreline. The aircraft has been flying for three years and logged 200 flight hours. (Photo courtesy of Bell). WASHINGTON — Bell’s ...