Army Conducts First Flight Of Fully-Upgraded UH-60V Black Hawk
By MatthewBeinart | September 15, 2020
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Army flies fully-upgraded UH-60V Black Hawk for the first time. (Corpus
Christi Army Depot)
The Army on Friday
conducted the first flight of the modernized UH-60V Black Hawk, which is a
retrofit of the UH-60L upgraded with Northrop Grumman’s ‘digital cockpit’
suite.
“The Corpus
Christi Army Depot (CCAD) had its first flight of [the] newest configuration of
the Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Since its original induction as a UH-60
Lima (L model) airframe, CCAD configured this helicopter into the current UH-60
Victor (V model),” CCAD said in a social media post.
While the Army
flew a prototype model of the UH-60V in January 2017, the flight on Sept. 11
was the first with a fully-upgraded model.
The Army’s UH-60V digital cockpit. (Northrop Grumman)
CCAD is
responsible for the reconfiguration and refurbishing to upgrade the UH-60L
Black Hawk to the UH-60V model.
In April,
the Army completed initial operational test and evaluation for ‘digital
cockpit’ upgrades for the avionics suites to be integrated on UH-60Vs.
Northrop Grumman’s
‘digital cockpit’ suite is designed to increase pilot awareness and enhance
navigational functionality by moving from an analog architecture to a digital
infrastructure enabling a pilot-vehicle interface.
“It is designed
with a secure, open architecture that provides greater mission flexibility and
a rapid upgrade path,” James Conroy, the company’s vice president for
navigation, targeting and survivability, said in a statement from April.
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