- Reaction score
- 8,323
- Points
- 1,160
Tilt Rotor issues and the landing area required for the Valor had me expecting the LocMart/Sik/Boeing Defiant to come out on top. Not to mention the whole aspect of the LocMart/Sik production line workforce of the BlackHawk. In an era of ensuring supply chains are maintained, adding Bell to the Army was very unexpected.
Conneticut is going to be gutted.
Unless, perhaps, there is a lifeline of sorts here?
Pilotless UH-60 Black Hawk Trialed In Recent U.S. Army Test
The pilotless UH-60 showed how the Army can perform autonomous resupply and that's just a taste of how it could be used in the future.
www.thedrive.com
As to the landing area, if we are looking at long range applications, especially in a Canadian context, the Valor may not use a conventional helipad but there would be an awful lot of dirt strips, open fields, frozen lakes and sea ice that would make for usable landing grounds. Along with ships decks?