Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft's S-97 Raider advanced prototype helicopter has shown off its agility in two demonstration flights for the US Army at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, ...

Earlier today, we got a glimpse of the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant, as the U.S. Army’s possible future helicopter traveled for over 800 miles between West Palm Beach, Florida, and Nashville, ...

Lockheed Martin Corp’s LMT business unit, Sikorsky, recently introduced the RAIDER X helicopter, specially designed for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. RAIDER X ...

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Sikorsky has debuted its Raider X light attack reconnaissance helicopter concept. At the annual conference of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington DC, the ...

“It’s exciting to achieve these high speeds with X2 Technology,” said Sikorsky experimental test pilot Bill Fell, a retired U.S. Army pilot. The Sikorsky S-97 Raider light tactical prototype ...

Nearly a year ago, Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider helicopter powered up for the first time; now the first prototype is air-bound. The Raider successfully completed its first flight at Sikorsky’s Development ...

For the first time, U.S. Army staff has gotten a look this week at the Sikorsky S-97 Raider helicopter in flight, one of two initial prototypes of a new generation of aircraft the Stratford ...

There is no question about it that the largest combat deployment of American military helicopters took place during the Vietnam War. Due to the nature of the country's terrain, helos were basically ...

Oct. 4 (UPI) --The Sikorsky S-97 Raider light prototype helicopter has completed much of it's testing, and recently exceeded 200 knots, or 230 mph, at the Sikorsky Development Flight Center. The ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), today introduced RAIDER X™, its concept for an agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter, ...

The demonstrations were meant to show the S-97 Raider’s agility and the program’s status to the U.S. Army personnel working on the Future Vertical Lift program. Sikorsky demonstrated the S-97 Raider, ...