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Army Selects Sikorsky, Bell To Build Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Prototypes

Army Selects Sikorsky, Bell To Build Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Prototypes
Sikorsky unveiled its Raider X design which features a larger airframe than the S-97 Raider and a modular open system architecture for avionics systems. Photo: Sikorsky

The Army on Wednesday evening announced it has selected Sikorsky’s [LMT] Raider X and Bell’s [TXT] 360 Invictus to move forward in its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. Sikorsky and Bell beat out a team of AVX [AVX] and L3Harris [LHX], Boeing [BA] and a team of Karem Aircraft, Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN], and will now go on to build competitive prototypes for the Army’s next scout helicopter.  "The Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft is the Army's number…

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