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V-280 Valor
The FLRAA will be based on Bell Textron's V-280 Valor tiltrotor and will replace the Army's Black Hawk combat attack helicopter fleet. [Photo: Bell]
Bell Announces $632M Next-Gen Assault Aircraft Factory in North Fort Worth, Creating Over 500 Jobs
by David Seeley | Dec 18, 2024
Two years after winning the U.S. Army’s biggest helicopter competition in 40 years—replacing the famed Black Hawk with a Future Long Range Assault Aircraft—Fort Worth-based Bell Textron announced a new factory in AllianceTexas will manufacture components for the next-gen tilt-rotor aircraft.
by David Seeley |
Aug 5, 2024
Slated to replace the Army's famed Black Hawk combat attack helicopter—and potentially worth $70 billion across the life of the fleet—Bell's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft deploys mature tiltrotor technology and innovative digital engineering. Bell says it will be "the most reliable, affordable, and high-performing long-range assault aircraft in the world."
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by David Seeley |
Dec 7, 2022
The Army's biggest helicopter competition in 40 years has a winner in Fort Worth. Bell Textron's V-280 Valor is slated to replace around 2,000 Black Hawk helicopters by 2030—with a tiltrotor design that lets it take off like a chopper and fly like a plane.
Designed for long-range assault missions, the Valor's initial contract is worth up to $1.3 billion. But the program could ultimately be worth $70 billion across the life of the fleet, including foreign military sales, Defense News reports.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 22, 2017
A tiltrotor aircraft is able to take off vertically like a helicopter and then rotate its engines to fly like an airplane.
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