{"id":11403,"date":"2022-12-06T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2022-12-06T23:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:30:56","slug":"us-army-bell-v-280-valor-tiltrotors-black-hawk-replacement-vid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=11403","title":{"rendered":"US Army: Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotors Black Hawk replacement (vid.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a game-changing decision that signals the &#8220;preeminence&#8221; of tilt-rotors over helicopters, the US Army has announced its selection of the Bell V-280 Valor as a replacement for its fleet of Black Hawk helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the initial contract is worth $232 million and initial production could reach $7.1 billion. The potential contract is worth about $70 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the largest related assignment in the last 40 years. The new Bell V-280 Valor will replace about 2,000 Black Hawks and about 1,200 Apaches around 2030 and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell Textron Inc. confirmed that it won the development contract for the US Army&#8217;s FLRAA program. Bell&#8217;s V-280 Valor was developed and tested as part of the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR TD) program that began in 2013. The V-280 was developed and tested over a period of more than three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RSJb&#8211;Qcjzs\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell&#8217;s V-280 beat Lockheed Martin-Boeing&#8217;s Defiant X. The V-280 Valor &#8220;acts&#8221; as a helicopter during takeoff or landing, but in the air it flies as a propeller-driven aircraft, much faster than conventional helicopters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a game-changing decision that signals the &#8220;preeminence&#8221; of tilt-rotors over helicopters, the US Army has announced its selection of the Bell V-280 Valor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[3921,3922,2937,215,2611,70],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-bell-v-280-valor-tiltrotors","tag-black-hawk","tag-defence","tag-us","tag-us-army","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}