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Army Officially Delivers ITEP Engines To FARA Competitors Bell, Sikorsky

Army Officially Delivers ITEP Engines To FARA Competitors Bell, Sikorsky
The U.S. Army’s Improved Turbine Engine arrived at the Sikorsky facility in West Palm Beach on Oct. 20. Sikorsky’s technical teams and engineers immediately began integrating the engine into the Raider X. Photo: Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company.

The Army has officially delivered the new General Electric Aerospace [GE]-built T901 helicopter engines to Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competitors Bell [TXT] and Sikorsky [LMT], setting the program up to fly prototypes for the first time next year. Delivery of the GE T901 engines, developed under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), on October 20 follows several delays due to manufacturing challenges that pushed the FARA program timeline and flight test plans by nearly a year. “I am incredibly…

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