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Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a division (business unit) of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia. It is responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. It was formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS).
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Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of an American aircraft manufacturer, now known as Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security.
Boeing Vertol Helicopters
Boeing Helicopters was created as Boeing Vertol when the Vertol Aircraft Corporation (formerly Piasecki Helicopter) company of Morton, Pennsylvania was acquired by Boeing in 1960; the Vertol name was an abbreviation for Vertical Take Off and Landing. Other names by which the division sometimes referred to itself in correspondence over the years were "Boeing Aircraft Company, Vertol Division" and "Boeing Philadelphia". The company was responsible for the design and production of the CH-46 Sea Knight and the CH-47 Chinook. The name became Boeing Helicopters in 1987, and the current name was adopted in 2002. When Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997, the former Hughes Helicopters operations in Mesa, Arizona were placed under Boeing Helicopters. A year and a half later Boeing sold the civilian line of helicopters to MD Helicopter Holdings Inc., an indirect subsidiary of the Dutch company, RDM Holding Inc.
Created in 1960
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Boeing helicopters.
Boeing: Commercial & Military Helicopters
AH-6 Little Bird (acquired when Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas)AH-64 Apache (acquired when Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas)
Boeing Model 234 Commercial Chinook
Boeing Model 360 (an all-composite, private venture, technology demonstrator)
Boeing Vertol 107-II
Boeing Vertol XCH-62 (Model 301)
Boeing Vertol YUH-61 / Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight / Boeing CH-47 Chinook / Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
V-22 Osprey (built as a teaming arrangement with Bell Helicopter Textron) / Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche / Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant /
Boeing MH-139 (Military variant AW139M to be American-built)
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Historical Aircraft Manufacturer
MD Helicopters, LLC.
(formerly McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems
MD Helicopters, LLC. (formerly McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems) is an American aerospace manufacturer. It produces light utility helicopters for commercial and military use. The company was a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft until 1984, when McDonnell Douglas acquired it and renamed it McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems. It later became MD Helicopters in 1999 after McDonnell
Products
MD 902 (German police)
(Under both McDonnell Douglas and MD Helicopters)
MD 500
MD 500 Defender
MD 520
MD 530
MD 600MD Explorer
(Under McDonnell Douglas only)
AH-64 Apache - Product line transferred to Boeing Defense, Space & Security in 1998
MH-6 Little Bird - later under Boeing Rotorcraft Systems and now as
Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security
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Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol)
Boeing CH46 Seaknight
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is an American medium-lift tandem-rotor helicopter.
Boeing MV-22 Osprey
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft
Howard Hughes helicopters
Boeing AH-64 Apache
Program Cost
- Crew: 2 (pilot, and co-pilot/gunner)
- Length: 58 ft 2 in (17.73 m)
- Fuselage length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
- Height: 12 ft 8 in (3.87 m)
- Empty weight: 11,387 lb (5,165 kg)
- Gross weight: 17,650 lb (8,006 kg)
Production
- Max takeoff weight: (10,433 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × General Electric T700-GE-701 turboshaft engines, 1,690 shp (1,260 kW) each (upgraded to 1,890 shp (1,409 kW) T700-GE-701C for AH-64A/D from 1990)
- Main rotor diameter: (14.63 m)
- Main rotor area: 1,908.5 sq ft (177.31 m2) 4-bladed main-rotor and 4-bladed tail-rotor in non-orthogonal alignment
- Blade section: root: HH-02;
tip: NACA 64A006
Planned role in fleet
- Maximum speed: 158 kn (182 mph, 293 km/h)
- Cruise speed: (165 mph, 265 km/h)
- Never exceed speed: 365 km/h)
- Range: 257 nmi (296 mi, 476 km) with Longbow radar mast
- Combat range: 260 nmi 480 km)
- Ferry range: 1,024 nmi, 1,896 km)
- Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
Potential related projects
- Guns: 1× 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun with 1,200 rounds as part of the Area Weapon Subsystem
- Hardpoints: Four pylon stations on the stub wings. Longbows also have a station on each wingtip for an AIM-92 Stinger twin missile pack.
- Rockets: Hydra 70 70 mm, CRV7 70 mm, and APKWS 70 mm air-to-ground rockets
- Missiles: Typically AGM-114 Hellfire variants; Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS); AGM-65 Maverick and Spike missiles may also be carried