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Bell, Sikorsky-Boeing Moving Forward In Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Program

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, March 16th, 2020

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Bell, Sikorsky-Boeing Moving Forward In Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Program

Sikorsky and Boeing's SB<1 Defiant. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The Army on Monday evening announced it has selected Bell’s [TXT] V-280 Valor and Sikorsky [LMT] and Boeing’s [BA] SB-1 Defiant to move forward in its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. Bell and the team of Sikorksky and Boeing, the two participants in the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program to inform final requirements for the Black Hawk-replacement program, will now head into the FLRAA Competitive Demo & Risk Reduction (CD&RR) phase. "These agreements are an important milestone for…

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