WASHINGTON -- The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a ...
Across the military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in the 2024 budget year compared with ...
Uzbekistan is to acquire an undisclosed number of Flexrotor uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) from Airbus Helicopters, marking ...
The Santa Cruz company says the test shows how its vertical takeoff and landing platform can be adapted for military missions ...
Myanmar says it has commissioned new Russian helicopters and Chinese airplanes into its air force as the two nations continue ...
Standing beside the CH-47, its size is overwhelming—52 feet of fuselage and nearly 100 feet of spinning rotor disc that lift ...
Joby Aviation on Thursday announced the first flight of its new turbine-electric, autonomous vertical takeoff and landing ...
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Is the US Army Giving Up on the Helicopter?

The ongoing Ukraine War has shown the limits of helicopters, particularly in comparison to drones that can carry out many of the same functions at a lower cost.
The AH-64 Apache has been the U.S. Army’s go-to attack helicopter since entering service in 1986 (first flight in 1975). Across its A/D/E variants, the Apache has earned a stellar reputation and long ...
Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75 and 94 wounded American soldiers from the Philippine jungles while under ...
They call it the CH-47F Chinook, and even since the early years of the 1960s it has traveled the skies of the world, scaring people with its unorthodox design, but helping the American military and ...