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2nd Battalion, Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division land on the landing zone on Command Outpost Nerkh, Wardak province, Afghanistan. The Army plussed-up its Black Hawk fleet for the War on Terror. Now its looking to pare it down.U.S. Army photo by Specialist Austin Berner The U.S. Army is preparing to downsize its UH-60 Black […]
U.S. Army, Sikorsky Plan Black Hawk’s Long-Term Future | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content U.S. Army UH-60V Black Hawk helicopters at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, in 2021. Credit: U.S. Army NASHVILLE, Tennessee—The U.S. Army wants its Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk fleet flying for the next 40 to 60 years, with the […]
The Government Accountability Office had set an April 7 deadline to rule on Lockheed Martin’s challenge of the Army decision to go with the Bell V-280 Valor as its future, all-purpose utility aircraft. The Black Hawk has held that role since the early 1980s, keeping Sikorsky a fixture among the handful of the largest employers […]
Sikorsky Aircraft, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) company, recently secured a $656.77 million modification award for the production and delivery of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters under a U.S. Army contract. The contractual work is expected to be completed by June 30, 2027. The Department of Defense, which is contracting the award, received the full award amount […]
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky reached a major milestone in January: the delivery of its 5,000th Black Hawk helicopter. The company marked the delivery on 20 January at its assembly plant in Stratford, Connecticut, saying the type will continue supporting medium-lift helicopter requirements for the US military and foreign operators “decades into the future”. “Sikorsky, as a […]
Sikorsky Delivers 5,000th “Hawk,” Highlights Versatility and Future of Iconic Helicopter STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 20, 2023 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), today delivered its 5,000th “Hawk” variant helicopter, a U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk. The iconic aircraft will continue to support medium-lift requirements for the U.S. military and international operators for decades […]
Dec 28 (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp’s (LMT.N) Sikorsky unit on Wednesday sought a review of the U.S. Army’s decision to award a contract for its next-generation helicopter to Textron Inc’s
The U.S. Army awarded Textron Inc.’s Bell unit a $1.3 billion contract Dec. 5 for its next-generation helicopter program over Stratford-based Sikorsky. Pentagon officials chose Bell’s V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft over the transformational, high-speed Defiant X prototype [pictured above] developed by Sikorsky in partnership with Boeing. The Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program, designed to […]
Uninhabited Black Hawk® helicopter lifts external cargo and completes casualty evacuation and medical resupply missions YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully demonstrated to the U.S. Army for the first time how an uninhabited Black Hawk helicopter […]
Sikorsky has its main factory in Stratford as a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. The Bethesda, Md.-based defense conglomerate updated investors Tuesday morning on its results for its third fiscal quarter ending in late September, with sales up 7 percent from three months earlier to $16.6 billion, and profits up 10 percent to $2.1 billion. Lockheed […]