U.S. OEMs and suppliers are striving with the Pentagon to define and develop a modular, open-systems framework for the design of military aircraft and avionics that can make such equipment more ...

Research in several areas will mature new capabilities to make Future Vertical Lift possible. In the future, Army aviation systems will need to operate in an anti-access and area denial (A2AD) ...

Third in a series of articles on how the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, formerly the Research, Development and Engineering Command and now part of Army Futures Command, is ...

The Bell V-247 tiltrotor is an unmanned aerial system (UAS) that will combine the vertical lift capability of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft, and would ...

The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet was designed as a joint strike fighter to serve the needs of the United States Air Force, Navy, and Marines, as well as many US allies and partners around the world.

Bell Helicopter's V-280 Valor is part of the Joint-Multi Role demonstration being conducted ahead of the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program of record. Mission systems are being incorporated into ...

The biggest problem with electric VTOL aircraft is the VTOL system. It's a pain. The world-changing convenience of vertical lift systems comes with a high price tag: they weigh a heap, particularly ...

Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated its Mini-Communications, Navigation, and Identification (CNI) system with open architecture and in-flight connectivity (IFC) capabilities for vertical lift ...

The U.S. Army’s Advanced Vertical Takeoff and Landing effort could see flying demonstrations of a vertical lift helicopter as early as next year. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON — With Bell Helicopters’ ...

A week after the Army pledged nearly $4 billion on its future attack helicopter effort, Army Secretary Mark Esper said he wants aircraft makers to start planning for the service's next heavy-lift ...

Andrew Adams, a 31-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been appointed to lead the company’s Future Vertical Lift campaign under the rotary and mission systems business, effective Nov. 18.

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