101st Airborne tapped as first unit to get new Black Hawk replacement

101st Airborne tapped as first unit to get new Black Hawk replacement

The 101st Airborne Division will be the first unit to get the Army’s new tiltrotor aircraft. This week the Army announced that the 101st will get to use Bell’s V-280 Valor, a next-generation replacement for the aging H-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, the division’s attached aviation unit, will receive the aircraft, which recently was given its official mission-design series designator of the MV-75. The choice of the …