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BELL 360
INVICTUS
BELL V-280
Always ready. The future fight requires increased range, speed, agility and lethality. It requires seamless coordination between Army aviation and the maneuver force. It requires persistence, fearlessness, and must own the information domain. The Bell 360 Invictus delivers the U.S. Army’s requirements for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft.
Capabilities
Lift-Sharing Wing
Relieves rotor lift demand, suppressing retreating blade stall for increased speed.
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Low Drag Tandem Cockpit
Provides an optimized field of view and reduced crew exposure with flight and weapons functionality from either station.
Modular open system architecture
Modular open system architecture enables low-cost, rapid development and deployment, and significantly reduced cost-of-change throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle.
Proven on the Bell V-280 Valor and Bell 525 Relentless, Bell's advanced digital flight control system harmonizes mature technologies for next-generation performance inclusive of pilot-optional operations
Fly-by-Wire
Modular open system architecture
Modular open system architecture enables low-cost, rapid development and deployment, and significantly reduced cost-of-change throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle.
Provides auxiliary power for ground maintenance and system checks and delivers supplemental horsepower to boost cruise airspeed, dash speed, hover payload, and autorotative performance.
Supplemental Power Unit (SPU)
Blades designed for high speed, low life-cycle cost, and significant drag reduction. Robust, low-maintenance design based on the Bell 525’s efficient proven high speed (>200 knots in level flight), producible solution.
High Performance Rotor System
Modular open system architecture
Modular open system architecture enables low-cost, rapid development and deployment, and significantly reduced cost-of-change throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle.
Rear
Front
Front
Rear
Eliminates drag for high speed mission capability
Retractable Weapons
Trims aircraft pitch attitude to minimize drag enhancing the overall maneuverability.
Active Horizontal Tail
Modular open system architecture
Modular open system architecture enables low-cost, rapid development and deployment, and significantly reduced cost-of-change throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle.
Modular open system architecture enables low-cost, rapid development and deployment, and significantly reduced cost-of-change throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle.
Modular Open System Architecture
Canted for payload increase and provides desirable pitch attitude at low speed enabling versatility for operations in any environment. Enhances cruise efficiency and maneuverability while suppressing retreating blade stall for increased speed.
Compact Ducted Tail Rotor
Built for long-term sustainability, agility and lethality, the Bell 360 Invictus offers an advanced platform for attack and reconnaissance operations in urban or rural environments. Our teams focused on modern manufacturing and the mature processes to fully sustain an aircraft and ensure it is first to the fight when the warfighter needs it.
Overview
At A Glance
2+0
Pax
Capacity
speed
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180
range
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Whether in the urban canyons of the megacity or rugged rural terrain, the design of the Bell 360 Invictus delivers advanced speed, range and agility. The robust, articulated rotor, lift-sharing wing and optimized tail rotor enable versatility for attack and reconnaissance operations in any environment.
Features
Maneuverability
Always prepared to finish the fight, the Bell 360 Invictus supports a 20mm cannon and internal payload that features an integrated munitions launcher to accommodate current and future ordnance. The combination of advanced sensors and air-launched effects elevates situational awareness and increases lethality across the multidomain spectrum.
Lethality
Our proprietary tools based on the digital thread connect all aspects of design, supply chain and maintenance. By allowing real-time collaboration, this digital toolkit reduces hundreds of man hours and downstream costs by facilitating smoother manufacturing, better sustainability and fewer schedule risks.
Digital Thread
Proven on the Bell V-280 Valor and Bell 525 Relentless, Bell’s advanced digital flight control system harmonizes mature technologies for next-generation performance while offering an upgrade path to higher-level capabilities, such as optimally crewed flight operations. The system is triplex redundant and enables Level 1 handling qualities, ensuring you’re equipped to complete your mission.
Fly-by-Wire System
Innovation joins performance and safety with the integrated supplemental power unit (SPU). It serves dual purposes by providing auxiliary power for ground maintenance and systems checks and offers supplemental horsepower to boost cruise airspeed, dash speed, hover payload and autorotative performance.
Supplemental Power Unit
Scouts need to show up every time. The maneuver force depends on it. A focus on modern manufacturing tools and processes increases affordability in acquisition, and the mature design optimizes reliability to ensure that when a soldier looks skyward, the Bell 360 Invictus will be there — over their shoulder and in the fight.
Sustainability
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Missions
Air Assault
Special Ops
Attack
MEDEVAC
MEDEVAC
Attack
Special Ops
Air Assault
Air Assault
Maneuver your forces at more than twice the current ranges and speeds to gain and maintain tactical and operational advantage.
Rapid Combat Power
The V-280 offers strategic projection with tactical execution for unconventional performance. Exactly what you need for executing unconventional missions.
Maneuver Through Any Mission
Special Ops
Operate in a complex environments to attack and destroy your enemy when and where they are most vulnerable.
Air-to-Ground-Ammo
Attack
Next: Operator-Driven Design
Rising operating cost
Challenge: Aging OH-58 Fleet
Case Study: Sacramento Police Department
Next: Case Study
Lower costs drives more flight hours, providing more support to officers on ground
Very low-cost alternative to larger aircraft
The Bell 505 has among the lowest acquisition and operating cost of public safety aircraft on the market
95% of Mission Solution, Only 50% Cost
Next: Mission Solution
A 3.9 hrs endurance allows for most ALE missions (patrol, command/control, etc)
Superior visibility enhances law enforcement operations
Design driven by customer input including maintenance providers
Operator-Driven Design
Get to safety and get there fast, wherever that may be. The V-280 more than doubles the service coverage of air ambulance flights reducing travel time to medical care.
Speed and Range, Multiplied
MEDEVAC
Integrated glass cockpit allows for maximum safety and control
Simple, easy and pre-flight procedures for fast call to action
Life Cycle Cost will be significantly less than any Long Light Single
Outdated mission equipment
Advanced avionics
Solution: The Bell 505
Bell 505’s thermal imaging and infrared helped SPD capture two suspects shortly after delivery
Ergonomic seats
Air Operations Team flies comfortably during long missions
Maintenance and operation
Easy and low cost Enhanced safety – Certified to latest safety standards
Performance
Speeds of 125 knots and useful load of 1,500 pounds - provides high performance to meet the SPD’s mission
Utility
EMPTY
30-minute loss of lube certified
Twin-engine platform
Extended range auxiliary fuel
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Maintenance and operation
Performance
Ergonomic seats
Advanced avionics
Solution: The Bell 505
Outdated mission equipment
Rising operating cost
Challenge: Aging OH-58 Fleet
Easy and low cost Enhanced safety – Certified to latest safety standards
Speeds of 125 knots and useful load of 1,500 pounds - provides high performance to meet the SPD’s mission
Air Operations Team flies comfortably during long missions
Bell 505’s thermal imaging and infrared helped SPD capture two suspects shortly after delivery
Case Study: Sacramento Police Department
Next: Operator-Driven Design
Next: Case Study
Life Cycle Cost will be significantly less than any Long Light Single
Lower costs drives more flight hours, providing more support to officers on ground
Very low-cost alternative to larger aircraft
The Bell 505 has among the lowest acquisition and operating cost of public safety aircraft on the market
95% of Mission Solution, Only 50% Cost
Next: Mission Solution
Simple, easy and pre-flight procedures for fast call to action
Integrated glass cockpit allows for maximum safety and control
A 3.9 hrs endurance allows for most ALE missions (patrol, command/control, etc)
Superior visibility enhances law enforcement operations
Design driven by customer input including maintenance providers
Operator-Driven Design
Flexibility in both internal and external payload configurations allows responsive logistical support to maintain offensive and defensive operations.
Capability in Combat
Utility
Utility
4-axis Autopilot and available Auto Hover for exceptional stability and pilot workload relief
Float kits and radar features
Aux Fuel Capability
Affordability / Sustainability
Weapons
Range
Performance
Affordability / Sustainability
Affordability / Sustainability
Weapons
Weapons
> 180 KTAS*
Performance
Performance
Specifications
Cruise Speed
Fly-by-wire flight control system enables optimal crew/autonomy Reduced pilot workload, superb agility in all flight modes
Flight Characteristics
Range
Range
135 nm*
Combat Radius
Payload
12,000+ lbs
Useful Load
20mm Cannon
1,400 lbs.
Integrated munitions launcher
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Hover
* at mission gross weight/configuration
* with > 90 minutes of time on station
*Standard MGW, Sea Level, ISA, Standard Fuel, No Reserve
Air-launched effects integration
Level 1 Handling Qualities at 4K/95º
Proprietary tools connect all aspects of design, supply chain and maintenance to allow real-time collaboration and reduce life cycle costs while increasing readiness.
Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)/digital backbone, Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) compliant, digital fly-by-wire flight control system-upgradeable throughout the life cycle and adaptable to emerging requirements.
Upgradable / Adaptable
Upgradable / Adaptable
Upgradable / Adaptable
