Sikorsky, Boeing Expect To Fly JMR Demonstrator in '17

The SB-1 Defiant, being developed by Boeing and Sikorsky for the Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) program, is on track for first flight in fiscal 2017.
The JMR program is the opening stage of the Army’s future vertical lift program that aims to replace its Apache and Black Hawk fleets. A downselect in August left the SB-1 team competing with Bell Helicopter and its V-280 Valor tiltrotor design.
The Defiant is a coaxial design, featuring counter-rotating rigid main rotor blades for vertical and forward flight. The program heads said the design gives greater maneuverability, including the ability to hover and tilt the nose 20 degrees up or 20 degrees down with minimal downwash.
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Bell unveils V-280 Valor mock-up

Bell Helicopter revealed the first full-scale mock-up of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft in Washington DC.
The model allows Army procurement officers to see firsthand Bell’s answer to the Army’s request for an aircraft under the Joint Multi-Role (JMR)/Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programme.
The V-280 will have a composite fuselage made by Spirit AeroSystems, a large-cell carbon-core wing, fly-by-wire controls and a V-shaped tail.
It also incorporates lessons the company learned from its V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, which Bell produced in partnership with Boeing.
The V-22 is used by the US Marine Corps and US Air Force.
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Bell V-280 Valor Selected for Army’s JMR-TD Program

Bell Helicopter, announced that the Bell V-280 Valor, its third generation tiltrotor design, has been selected by the U.S. Army for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) program. The Army is expected to award JMR-TD contracts by September 2013, with first flight scheduled for 2017.
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