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Army To Conduct Final Design Review For Bell, Sikorsky FARA Offerings At End Of 2020

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, March 26th, 2020

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Army To Conduct Final Design Review For Bell, Sikorsky FARA Offerings At End Of 2020

Sikorsky's Raider X

The Army’s two finalists for its future scout attack helicopter program, Sikorsky [LMT] and Bell [TXT], will go through a final design and risk review for each of their offerings at the end of 2020, the Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team (FVL CFT) told Defense Daily on Thursday. The FVL CFT also affirmed that the first flight tests for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft prototypes are scheduled for November 2022. The additional FARA details arrive after the announced Wednesday evening…

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