Sikorsky – The Tactical Air Network

Lockheed Martin’s Version of the 160th SOAR’s Black Hawk Gunship Goes on the Market

July 12, 2016 // 1 Comment

According to Aaron Mehta of Defense News, Lockheed Martin has already generated a customer for the gunship version of Sikorsky’s highly-successful UH-60 Black Hawk. [read more...]

Piasecki’s X-49 is the Fastest Sea Hawk in Existence

August 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Historically speaking, Piasecki Aircraft is no stranger to designing aircraft that challenge the current mainstays of aviation, specifically in the world of rotorcraft. [read more...]

The Comanche Lives on In Spirit With the OH-1

April 13, 2015 // 2 Comments

Remember the RAH-66 Comanche, the progeny of a Boeing-Sikorsky joint venture that looked like one part Lamborghini, one part F-117 Nighthawk and two parts awesome? Many of us [read more...]

Raider Rollout

October 2, 2014 // 1 Comment

In the days leading up to the 2nd of October, 2014, Sikorsky Aircraft took to social media to get people hyped up for a long-anticipated reveal of their next revolutionary [read more...]

Tigers, Dives and 20 mm Cannons

September 21, 2014 // 1 Comment

On Friday the 21st, 1956, one of Grumman’s in-house test pilots, Thomas W. Attridge Jr. climed into a borrowed Navy Grumman F11F-1 Tiger (BuNo 138620), taxied out, [read more...]

The Comanche

September 9, 2014 // 4 Comments

What do you get when you cross a Ferrari with an F-117 Nighthawk and a AH-1 Cobra? A hell of a weird car. Or, the RAH-66 Comanche, a stealth scout/attack helicopter that just [read more...]

Super Bowl XLVIII

February 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

So what exactly does the Super Bowl have to do with military aviation? Well, ever since 1968, the most important game in professional football is kicked off (pun somewhat [read more...]

Future Vertical Lift

October 9, 2013 // 1 Comment

VTOL aviation isn’t anything especially new to the military. It has a number of benefits and advantages to its name that conventional rotorcraft don’t. In recent years, [read more...]