After reviewing feedback from the US Army in its failed bid to provide a new long-range troop carrying helicopter, Sikorsky says it remains confident that its radical X2 line of coaxial compound ...

Sikorsky Aircraft will design, build and fly two prototype light tactical helicopters as the follow-on advancement to the X2 Technology demonstrator aircraft that unofficially shattered the helicopter ...

Sikorsky is pitching its X2 high-speed helicopter technology to customers outside the USA and has spun out a conceptual multirole rotorcraft it now calls the ‘International Twin’. The X2 architecture ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), today introduced RAIDER X™, its concept for an agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter, ...

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) covers more of the globe than any Department of Defense geographic combatant commands, making it vital for the military to operate at range. The region has ...

Sikorsky and parent Lockheed Martin are dusting off the "X2" helicopter concept to compete for a potential NATO contract, on the heels of losing out to a Bell Textron tiltrotor aircraft for a massive ...

The U.S. Army has canceled plans for an armed scout helicopter, dealing a blow to Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky Aircraft, which employs hundreds of people in Palm Beach County. Now questions are being ...

X2 technology could let a helicopter "cruise comfortably" at 250 knots, much faster than current production models, the company says. But when will it actually fly? Jon Skillings is an editorial ...

After losing the FLRAA program, Sikorsky examines new markets for its X2 technology. While it did not secure the FLRAA contract, Sikorsky continues to glean information from its Raider-X program.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sikorsky S-97 Raider light tactical prototype helicopter is advancing rapidly through its flight test schedule, recently exceeding 200 knots at ...

Sikorsky has teamed with Leonardo to investigate its compound helicopter technology for NATO's Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability program. Sikorsky proposed the Defiant-X design for the U.S. Army's ...

The Sikorsky. X2 Technology demonstrator team has been named the winner of the 2010 Robert J. Collier Trophy, awarded annually to recognise the greatest achievements in aeronautics or astronautics in ...