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Sikorsky Covers Today With Black Hawk,


Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky is pushing ahead with more missions for its venerable Black Hawk platform and looking to the future with the S-97 Raider, the company’s entry in the U.S. Army’s Future Attack


Reconnaissance


Aircraft Competitive Prototype competition.


“This year is the 40th anniversary of the first Black Hawk delivery,” said Chris Dowse, Sikorsky’s director for army systems. “Over that time, the Black Hawk has played a role in nearly every type of military mission that a utility helicopter can play, including assault, cargo, rescue, and troop transport.”


Forty years on, Sikorsky “continues to grow the capability of the Black Hawk for the warfighter,” Dowse said. One of the recent additions has been a commercial off- the-shelf weapons kit for this helicopter. The kit provides foreign militaries with U.S. Special Forces-style attack capabilities at a competitive price.


Given that the U.S. Army has said it expects to operate Black Hawks into the 2070s, Sikorsky is committed to developing new capabilities to meet evolving needs. One such capability is a hardware and software kit to enable optionally piloted flight with two, one or zero pilots. The no-pilot configuration would, for example, allow the Black Hawk to drop off cargo into hostile areas “without putting a crew at risk,” Dowse said.


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The one-pilot configuration would free up the second pilot to do other tasks in emergency situations, without compromising the helicopter crew’s safety. Sikorsky has been advancing this capability in an S-76, the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA), for about six years.


Meanwhile, Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider is proving its worth in test flights as a fast, maneuverable light tactical helicopter. Derived from the company’s X2 flight demonstrator and related X2 technology, the Raider can carry up to six soldiers plus external weapons. The helicopter’s twin contra- rotating coaxial rotors and tail-mounted pusher propeller allow it to cruise just below 220 knots/250 mph.


“The Raider continues to meet all flight objectives. That demonstrates how Sikorsky’s X2 technology will revolutionize vertical lift,” said Tim Malia, Sikorsky’s director of future vertical lift light. “We are showing how X2 aligns with the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance


Aircraft


(FARA) requirements, filling a critical gap in the Army.” The U.S. Army plans to select two companies in 2020 to submit FARA prototypes, and see these prototypes flying by 2023, according to the draft solicitation.


Tomorrow with S-97 Raider


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