V-280 Valor

Fort Worth’s Bell Will Replace the Army’s Famed Black Hawk in Contract Win Worth Billions

by | 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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Bell Helicopter’s V-280 Valor Makes its First Flight
by | 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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