{"id":155805,"date":"2024-12-08T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/closer-look-bell-v-247-vigilant\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T01:00:16","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-incredible-bell-v-247-vigilant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=155805","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look At The Incredible Bell V-247 Vigilant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having designed the V-22 Osprey and the V-280 Valor,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"676198\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Bell Helicopters<\/span><\/span> sits at the forefront of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"549969\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>tiltrotor<\/span><\/span> design, but not all tiltrotors need to be manned. One of Bell&#8217;s most eye-catching concepts it is working on is the unmanned V-247 Vigilant. It is increasingly becoming evident that tiltrotor aircraft are the future of US military rotary aircraft. (The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> is also reportedly         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036844\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aircraft-replacing-us-navy-mh-60-seahawk-helicopter-fleet\/\" >considering a tiltrotor design to replace its aging fleet of MH-60 Seahawk helicopters<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The autonomous V-247 tiltrotor could have a future in three services, carrying out escorts and other missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,10511,412,5679,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bell-aircraft-corporation","category-military","category-tiltrotor","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155806,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155805\/revisions\/155806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}