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Schmidt Meister Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Army Chooses Bell V-280 to Replace Its Black Hawk Helicopters Bell beat the Defiant-X pitched, a compound coaxial helicopter offered by a Sikorsky-Boeing team. The U.S. Army has chosen Bell to build a new aircraft that will replace the venerable UH-60 Black Hawk, which has been flying soldiers in combat since the 1970s. Bell received a $232 million contract on Monday, Bell V-280the first installment of what could be a $7.1 billion deal for development and an initial batch of aircraft. “It’s a chance to move to the next step in this vital program,” Doug Bush, the Army acquisition chief, said during a Monday evening call with reporters. It’s a huge win that could be worth more than $70 billion for the Textron-owned company in the coming decades depending on how many aircraft are ordered by the Army and foreign militaries. “For Textron, it is a generational win that rejuvenates Bell's military franchise,” Cowen analyst Roman Schweizer wrote in an Oct. 12 note to investors. Bell, which pitched the V-280, a tiltrotor aircraft similar to the V-22 Osprey, beat a Sikorsky-Boeing team that had proposed a coaxial helicopter, which uses two stack rotors that spin in opposite directions providing more stability than traditional helicopters. The tiltrotor can takeoff and land vertically like a helicopter, but rotate its propellers forward allowing it to fly at fixed-wing aircraft speeds. “The V-280’s unmatched combination of proven tiltrotor technology coupled with innovative digital engineering and an open architecture offers the Army outstanding operational versatility for its vertical lift fleet,” Bell said in an emailed statement. The contract awarded Monday is for a “virtual prototype,” not an actual aircraft, Army officials said. An initial prototype could come in 2025, but the Army would need to award additional contracts before that happens, officials said. Army officials touted the speed in which the award was made, saying it has been accelerated by some four years. Over the past nine years, both bidders built and flew demonstrators of their proposals. “We have taken new authorities from Congress, we have melded them with a very thoughtful, very deliberate approach in terms of trying out things before we proceed and doing things in terms of the program structure to allow us to move at greater speed than originally planned to get this capability in the hands of soldiers,” Bush said. Officials declined to give specific reasons why they chose Bell over Sikorsky-Boeing other than the Bell proposal was the “best value.” The losing companies have three days to request a debriefing from the Army about their decision. After that briefing they have the option to protest the Army decision. If they do protest, the Government Accountability Office would conduct a review and make a ruling. “We remain confident DEFIANT X is the transformational aircraft the U.S. Army requires to accomplish its complex missions today and well into the future,” Sikorsky and Boeing said in a joint statement. “We will evaluate our next steps after reviewing feedback from the Army.” Bell first unveiled the V-280 in 2013. Unlike its predecessor the V-22, the engines at the end of its wing are fixed, a move that is supposed to lower maintenance costs. The Army calls the replacement deal the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA. “We expect initial FLRAA buy to be 750-1K, and mixed fleet of FLRAA + UH-60 for decades,” Schweizer wrote in an Oct. 12 note to investors. https://www.defenseone.com/business/2022/12/army-chooses-bell-v-280-replace-its-black-hawk-helicopters/380487/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 52 Submarines and 4 Submarine Tenders. US Navy Reserve Fleet, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California. circa 1946. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 If you run, you'll just die tired. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 USS Bataan (CVL-29) preparing for their second Korea deployment, 1952, with a squadron of Marine Corsairs aboard. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Sailors catching some sleep in the 40 mm quadruple gun mount aboard the USS New Jersey (BB-62), December 1944. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 USS Wasp (CV-18), during flight operations, 1944. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 The battleships USS Iowa and USS Missouri moored in Tokyo Bay days after the Japanese surrender. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Schmidt Meister Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) On 12/11/2022 at 8:04 AM, Schmidt Meister said: If you run, you'll just die tired. UPDATE: If you post this on Facebook and you are already restricted, you WILL get a 10 day suspension. Edited December 12, 2022 by Schmidt Meister 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 USS Turner Joy, laid down in 1957, entered service in 1959. Famous for her involvement in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964. Now a museum in Bremerton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 USS Fort Worth LCS-3 one of our littoral class combat ships 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 U.S. Army soldiers from the East Africa Response Force (EARF) deployed to participate in a rapid response crisis training exercise in Kenya 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft detaches from a KC-10 Extender aircraft after receiving fuel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Schmidt Meister Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 B-24E (Liberator) Bombers on the assembly line at Ford’s Willow Run Plant. Michigan - February 1943. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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