The AW249 flew low through a valley in its natural habitat during a recent demonstration by the Italian Army, which expects the aircraft to play a key role in its future battlefield doctrine of multidomain operations.
Credit: Fabio Facco/Leonardo Helicopters
Forty years after developing Europe’s first dedicated attack helicopter, the AW129 Mangusta, Leonardo is flight-testing its successor. The 8.3-metric-ton, twin-engine AW249—christened the AH-249A Fenice (Italian for “phoenix”) by its Italian Army launch customer—is almost twice the weight of its...
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