Four Companies Vying For FVL Contract With The U.S. Army
The Army-led Future Vertical Lift program is being developed to replace the service's aging helicopter fleet and the aircraft of other services at some point in the future. The need for FVL was explained by Dan Bailey, program director, Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator/FVL, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
Washington Post Op-Ed Says That 'Apache, Lakota, Chinook' And Others Are 'Racist'
You could almost see it coming ... like a fast-closing target on a head-up display. A recent editorial in the Washington Post says that the U.S. military’s helicopter designations of Apache, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Kiowa are a "greater symbolic injustice" than the name "Redskins."
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