UH-60M Black Hawk: export demand underpins $13 billion market opportunity
The Sikorsky UH-60/S-70 is a medium transport/utility helicopter. (Photo: Sikorsky)
The UH-60M is the latest variant of the UH-60, a workhorse multirole helicopter that continues to attract further orders from across the globe. With further modernisation upgrades underway, the platform is expected to remain in operation until 2050.
A widely exported attack and utility helicopter, Sikorsky’s UH-60 is a medium transport platform whose latest variant – the UH-60M – is in operation with the US Army alongside various international customers across the globe.
First entering service in 1979 with the US Army as the UH-60A, the UH-60 has been in its latest iteration, the UH-60M, since 2006 and stands as one of the most widely deployed helicopters in military service.
Now, the aircraft variant is undergoing various modernisation upgrades – including engine improvements and autonomy – which will further expand the helicopter’s role to, according to Sikorsky, become a “networked
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