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Airbus a RACER in US Army Future Attack-Recon Aircraft Competition

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019

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Airbus a RACER in US Army Future Attack-Recon Aircraft Competition

Image courtesy of Airbus Helicopters

MARIGNANE, France — Airbus Helicopters is responding to the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program with a concept based on its new high-speed civilian helicopter prototype, according to Chief Executive Bruno Even. “We are looking at the FARA demonstrator program based on the technology we have developed in terms of a high-speed platform, based on the X3 in particular,” Even said Feb. 18 at the Airbus headquarters here. “This competency, this technology we have developed … clearly we…

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