This photo taken on August 12, 2014 shows a Blackhawk helicopter taking off from a base in the Gardez district of Paktia province. All NATO combat troops will be out of Afghanistan by the end of the ...

Sikorsky team members remove a recently delivered T901 engine from it shipping crate at the Sikorsky facility in West Palm Beach on Oct. 20. (Photo by David Hylton/U.S. Army) NASHVILLE, Tenn. − For ...

The Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) provides Army Aviation the power to operate in Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) with longer range and endurance, providing ground forces the opportunity ...

WASHINGTON – The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) has successfully completed a second test of its HPW3000 engine, its offering for the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) program. The ...

DENVER — The Army recently ran the new GE Aerospace T901 next-gen helicopter engine on Sikorsky’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) prototype, gathering data ahead of a planned first flight ...

The Army is working toward replacing the 1970s-era engine in Black Hawk and Apache helicopters with the Improved Turbine Engine Program. (Senior Airman Curt Beach/U.S. Air Force) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — ...

Editor’s note – This story has been updated to include comments from GE Aerospace. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s new, next-generation helicopter engine meant to replace engines in UH-60 Black Hawks, AH ...

When I was growing up in Missouri during the 1980's, Vietnam war movies were all the rage. Soldiers scrambling to climb aboard U.S. military helicopters before approaching enemy forces overwhelmed ...

The United States is understood to have begun the process of preparing its helicopter fleets for the new and more powerful Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), due to enter service in the coming ...

Sometime in the very near future, probably this month, the U.S. Army will announce the winner of a competition to develop a new engine for most of the service’s helicopters. Called the Improved ...

One of the competing 3,000shp (2,240kW)-class engines being developed by leading propulsion specialists could eventually power a next-generation light assault rotorcraft being considered by the US ...

Hey, did you hear the joke about the $500 million Army contract? I don't remember the setup -- but the punchline was that it's actually going to cost 10 times more. Without an engine, Sikorsky's Black ...