SASless:
I would say it's not relevant as to what the V280's (or SB>1's) helicopter performance actually is compared to the Black Hawk. Army is not asking for another Black Hawk, any more than the Army was asking for another Huey when it ran the UTTAS competition. The question is how well the V280 will perform the Army's FLRAA mission. It's the mission that's relevant. If you want to do apple to apple comparisons that's where you do them and there the Black Hawk fails completely. That's not a fault of the H-60 series, never in the designers' wildest dreams would they expect their craft to be capable of that.