Senior Army leaders are now advancing and refining plans to speed up development and delivery of a new faster, more-lethal and high-tech Future Vertical Lift aircraft currently slated to be ...

As the Army looks beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to a future of competing against highly capable state actors the service is rethinking its approach to vertical lift. The future of ...

CW2 William Bogert, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, examines the cockpit of the Bell Joint Multi-Role Technology aircraft. Soldiers visited businesses to provide feedback to help inform future ...

WASHINGTON -- Project Convergence is refining the Army’s aviation capabilities, as leaders work toward an asymmetric advantage in the air to fight and win against a near-peer threat, commander of the ...

Sometime later this year, the U.S. Army will select the first of two new rotorcraft designed to replace much of the joint helicopter fleet. The initial “down-select” will choose between aircraft ...

Competitors in the Future Vertical Lift space, such as the Bell V-280 Valor, will need to keep an eye on their lower-tier suppliers, a new study warns. (Photo courtesy of Bell) WASHINGTON — Army ...

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U.S. Army aviation officials on Tuesday offered a preview of the aircraft that make up Future Vertical Lift, a bold effort that rests upon developing a family of manned and unmanned rotary-wing ...

The head of Army special-ops aviation hopes the service's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) effort will produce a specialized attack helicopter capable of inserting small teams on strategic missions.