{"id":137621,"date":"2022-04-02T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/sb1-defiant-helicopter-completes-long-endurance-flight-to-nashville"},"modified":"2022-04-02T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T13:24:51","slug":"sb1-defiant-helicopter-completes-long-endurance-flight-to-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/sb1-defiant-helicopter-completes-long-endurance-flight-to-nashville","title":{"rendered":"SB&gt;1 DEFIANT Helicopter Completes Long-Endurance Flight to Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sb1-defiant-helicopter-completes-long-endurance-flight-to-nashville.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will it be the next Black Hawk?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>NASHVILLE March 31, 2022<\/strong> \u2014 After three years of proving its transformational flight capabilities, the Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing SB1 DEFIANT\u00ae helicopter arrived in Nashville this week to give U.S. Army Aviators a first-hand look at this impressive aircraft at the Army Aviation Association of America\u2019s annual summit.<\/p>\n<p>Army aviators at the summit will be able to see how Team DEFIANT is revolutionizing Future Vertical Lift, one of the Army\u2019s top modernization priorities, with a focus on transforming the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program\u2019s capabilities, production and sustainment resulting in lower-life cycle costs. The result is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/defiantx\">DEFIANT X\u00ae<\/a> a complete weapon system that builds on the handling qualities and capabilities proven by the team\u2019s technology demonstrator, SB1 DEFIANT\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Sikorsky and Boeing embarked on the DEFIANT journey, we were mission focused and thinking ahead to creating a holistic weapon system that would give America\u2019s Soldiers a strategic advantage to deter and defeat threats well into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century,\u201d said Sikorsky President Paul Lemmo. \u201cDEFIANT ensures our aviators are confident and prepared for what\u2019s ahead and gives them the agility to adapt to evolving threats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will it be the next Black Hawk? NASHVILLE March 31, 2022 \u2014 After three years of proving its transformational flight capabilities, the Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing SB1 DEFIANT\u00ae helicopter arrived in Nashville this week to give U.S. Army Aviators a first-hand look at this impressive aircraft at the Army Aviation Association of America\u2019s annual summit. Army [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}