V-280 Tiltrotor Concept t ©Bell Helicopter Bell V-280 Tiltrotor Concept t ©Bell Helicopter Bell Helicopter, unveiled its third ge...
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The Bell V-280 Valor, Bell Helicopter's third generation tiltrotor, offers the U.S. Army the highest levels of maturity and technical readiness.
The Bell V-280 is a combat multiplier with a cruise speed of 280 knots and combat range of up to 800 nautical miles.
With its U.S. Army-centric design, the Bell V-280 has the capacity to perform a multitude of missions with unparalleled speed and agility. The Bell V-280's clean sheet design reduces complexity compared to previous generation tiltrotors, with fewer parts, as well as non-rotating, fixed engines.
The Valor delivers the best value in procurement, operations and support, and force structure, providing increased maintainability, component reliability and systems designed to reduce operational and support costs.
The technology demonstrator medium class aircraft can accommodate a crew of four and 11 troops.
The Bell V-280 Valor's Army-centric design boasts a number of unmatched capabilities and transformational features including:
*. Speed: 280 KTAS cruise speed
*. Combat range: 500-800nm
*. Strategically Self-Deployable - 2100nm Range
*. Achieves 6k/95
*. Non-rotating, fixed engines
*. Triple redundant fly-by-wire flight control system
*. Conventional, retractable landing gear
*. Two 6' wide large side doors for ease of ingress/egress
*. Suitable down wash
*. Significantly smaller logistical footprint compared to other aircraft.
Bell Helicopter is the world's premier tilt rotor expert ranging from first generation XV-3 and XV-15, to the second generation 609 civil tilt rotor and the combat-proven V-22 Osprey.
