Sikorsky-Boeing JMR-FVL concept aircraft
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Sikorsky-Boeing team thinks X2
Cue up Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” — the next wave of helicopter designs are on their way.

But don’t hit play just yet. For the most part, those futuristic choppers are still months and years away from anything but the drawing board. Still, the Pentagon’s plans are being set in motion, and now’s as good a time as any to do some gazing at the far horizon.
There are several different projects we’ll be looking at in this slideshow. A key one is the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative, and its precursor, the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator program, both led by the US Army but intended to produce rotary-winged flying machines for use across all the military branches. Just this week, the Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center issued awards to four companies under the JMR TD program to get them started on refining initial designs over the next nine months, with a hoped-for first flight of demonstrator aircraft late in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2017.
One of the participants in the JMR TD initiative is this helicopter design, a joint concept put forward by a Sikorsky-Boeing tag team. It’s based on Sikorsky’s X2 technology, which in 2010 propelled a demonstrator helicopter to 250 knots in flight — roughly twice the average cruise speed of conventional helicopters.

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Sikorsky S-97 Raider concept
The Sikorsky-Boeing JMR TD proposal, like the X2 demonstrator before it, features the uncommon design elements of twinned, coaxial, counter-rotating main rotors on top and a push propeller at the tail. The goal is for the Sikorsky-Boeing aircraft to have a cruising speed of a very brisk 230 knots.
That X2 design also underlies Sikorsky’s own planned S-97 Raider (depicted here), the first prototype of which as of late September was just going into final assembly. That prototype — eventually there will be two of them — will be 36 feet long and will weigh 11,000 pounds (versus 6,000 pounds for the X2 demonstrator). Sikorsky said it is eyeing 2015 to begin demonstrating the S-27 Raider’s capabilities, including cruise speeds up to 220 knots and “dash speeds” of 240 knots or better, to potential customers, including the U.S. military.

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V-280 Valor concept
Another participant in the FVL/JMR initiative, and another tag team, is that of Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin, with the V-280 Valor concept (pictured here). That’s right — it’s not a helicopter but rather a tilt-rotor design akin to that of the Bell-built V-22 Osprey, which has been in service for several years now. And that’s just fine by the Army’s FVL expectations, which are open to either type of rotary-winged aircraft.
We should clarify that JMR TD is what the military calls a science and technology program — it’s the conceptual phase. Although it is a first step toward the Future Vertical Lift family of aircraft, JMR isn’t about building FVL prototypes specifically; it’s about sounding out “advanced technologies and efficient configurations” to help “mitigate risks” for the eventual FVL program, the Army said in its statement this week.
“We must continue to push implementation of the FVL Strategic Plan which will positively impact Vertical Lift Aviation operations for the next 50-plus years,” William Lewis, director of the AMRDEC’s Aviation Development Directorate, said in that statement. “Absolutely, that is what JMR is all about. As we understand the demonstrated technologies and the opportunities for future technologies, that will feed the desired and reasonable capabilities and requirements for the potential FVL solutions.”

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Envisioning the V-280 in action
Bell unveiled the V-280 Valor design in April of this year. It was only just in September that it partnered with Lockheed. The tilt-rotor technology demonstrator is intended to have a breathtaking — for a rotary-winged aircraft — cruising speed of 280 knots (about twice that of current rotary-winged aircraft), with a combat range of 500 to 800 nautical miles.
Whatever shape the FVL aircraft eventually takes, it’ll need to be capable of multiple missions, in part “because it can be scaled,” Maj. Gen. Anthony G. Crutchfield, then commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, is quoted as saying in an Army News Service story from April 2012. “It may be a medium variant, something that is the size of maybe a Black Hawk or an Apache is today, that can do the attack mission, or the assault/lift mission. I see the same aircraft scaled smaller that will be able to do the reconnaissance mission, similar to what a Kiowa Warrior does today.”
Besides being faster and capable of lifting heavier loads than today’s helicopters, the FVL aircraft would be expected to help the Army save money through better fuel economy and a common design that would allow components — engine, drive train, cockpit fixtures, and so on — to be swapped, even between aircraft of different sizes.

The amount of money used to develop weapons could be used to solve world hunger. But hey, power to the few is more important than food to the many.

Lovely machines.






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And all of it is for war. when are we going to ourselves

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In preparation for end time abi; nations fighting against nation

myads890: The amount of money used to develop weapons could be used to solve world hunger. But hey, power to the few is more important than food to the many.

Lovely machines.

They are just lovely

V-280 is what the US - MILITARY used in "invading" Pakistan to capture/kill Osama bin Laden

Ichel: Op, whats the name of the game/movie and when is going on sale.
Don't forget to add the remaining 16 pixs n source.

Busted...... The pictures looks like simulation games

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Nice innovation

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Chail see wetin man dey build.Omo i pity any group wey dese guys wan use dis kain machine fight,because dem go renounce all de fake promises dem dey bliv in oooo
I hope nigeria no go try fight dese guys

Nice ones

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I dont understand, do they want to destroy the world with these war tools?

I was here...

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