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Bell's V-280 Valor rotorcraft, designated the MV-75, is designed to fly faster and longer than the UH-60 Black Hawk ...
The MV-75, a tiltrotor aircraft, will replace the Black Hawk, boosting the U.S. Army's rapid deployment and modernization efforts against strategic threats.
The following is the June 3, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) ...
Israel struck a key Iranian nuclear site on Thursday and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital, as President Donald Trump kept the world guessing about whether the U.S. would join Israel in ...
Tensions between Israel and Iran have reached a boiling point as Israeli airstrikes targeted critical infrastructure, ...
As Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast barrels into its eighth day, elements of two more Ukrainian air assault brigades—the 82nd and 95th—have joined the fray. Troopers from the ...
It’s a plane. It’s a helicopter. It’s both. Meet "FLRAA," the Army’s new tiltrotor for Future Long-Range Air Assault. This is how the Army will island hop in the Pacific to fend off China.
Today we trace the origins of these action filled military operations. Air assault is the movement of ground-based military forces by vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, such as helicopters ...
The Ukrainian air-assault force’s 25th Brigade just got a lot heavier. Photos that appeared online this week confirm the brigade has re-equipped with German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicles.
It’s a lot of moving pieces when it comes to the actual air assault mission and rappelling out of an aircraft,” Staff Sgt. Dynell Kinnebrew says. “I myself have been in that situation and ...
This story has been corrected. SAN ANTONIO, Philippines — U.S. soldiers and Marines and Filipino troops demonstrated an air assault on three islands guarding a key strait near Taiwan ...