With all of the unsupported statements being made regarding the V-280 footprint compared to Blackhawk, I decided to lay it out for myself.
Full disclosure, I couldn’t find anything but photographs comparing the Blackhawk to the SB>1 Defiant. Therefore I was forced to use a Sikorsky image of them next to each other to scale the Defiant Main rotor size based on a 53’8” Blackhawk main rotor.
The shaded green areas show where the Valor footprint exceeds the Defiant footprint, while the violet shaded area s illustrate where the Defiant footprint exceeds that of Valor. For reference, a Blackhawk footprint is shown.
For footprint size, it seems to be a case of six of one, or a half a dozen of another. ;-)