The U.S. military’s vertical lift fleet of helicopters and tiltrotors is aging. With the exception of V-22 Osprey, no completely new aircraft designs have been introduced since the 1980s. Even the ...
The United Kingdom government has included the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programme in a wider agreement on capability and equipment modernisation with the United States. Along with the Bell V-280 ...
In our last paper, we discussed the current state of the U.S. vertical lift fleet and how past investment decisions helped shape this fleet. This brief will focus on future investments. Vertical lift ...