What will be the next Army heavy lifter?

China's R6000 tiltrotor drone combines airplane speed with helicopter landings for autonomous logistics missions.

The V-280 Valor was designed as Bell’s answer to one of the biggest military aviation questions of the century: how to ...

Fort Worth-based Bell Textron Inc. announced the layoff of hundreds of employees — about 3% of the company’s workforce — at three of its facilities in Texas and Kansas. The defense contractor — which ...

The United States Army has named the newest MV-75 multi-purpose tiltrotor aircraft the Cheyenne II, in honor of one of the Native American tribes. This was reported by the manufacturer, Bell. In ...

The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft combining vertical lift with high-speed flight, designed to replace traditional helicopters with greater range, speed, and operational flexibility. The ...

A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache launches an Anduril Altius 700 Medium-Range Launched Effect (MR-LE) at Yuma Proving Ground during a recent concept exercise. Image–Courtesy Photo via DVIDS. The big three ...

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...

ATLANTA—Bell is starting assembly of the fuselage of the prototype MV-75 tiltrotor for the U.S. Army and is beginning design work on a second increment variant for U.S. Special Operations Command ...

Proprotor blades stop and fold back and propulsion transitions from turboshaft to turbofan to accelerate the X-76 to speeds of about 400 kt. Credit: Bell The stop-fold tiltrotor uncrewed aircraft ...

The V-280 Valor. Bell photo. Lawmakers are backing the Army’s push to accelerate the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program, including a provision in the next defense policy bill that ...

Summary: The Army is racing to field a prototype assault aircraft by early 2027 that flies twice as fast and twice as far as the Black Hawk. Jared Serbu Don’t need to dig into all of the details that ...