During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia sent a large number of armed helicopters to fight on the front line, but suffered heavy losses. Russia is estimated to have lost more than 100 armed helicopters. In the early and middle stages of the war, Russian armed helicopters appeared a lot. However, with the increase in losses and the frequent use of drones and fixed-wing fighter jets, armed helicopters began to gradually retreat to the second line and its appearance on the front lines has repeatedly gotten lower This has led the countries who are observing the war to consider reducing the number of attack helicopters.

Although the future of attack helicopters is worrying, fast transport helicopters are still indispensable and have become more important. One year after selecting the V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft to replace the Black Hawk helicopters, the U.S. Army officially launched a replacement operation. The first batch of cuts was approximately 160 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, freeing up the budget for the new generation of Valor to take over..

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