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Bell Wins Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Program, Receives Deal Worth Up to $1.3 Billion

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, December 5th, 2022

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Bell Wins Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Program, Receives Deal Worth Up to $1.3 Billion

The V-280 Valor. Bell photo.

Bell [TXT] has won the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program, the service announced on Monday evening, receiving an initial award worth up to $1.3 billion to provide the new platform that’s set to serve as the eventual UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter replacement. Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft design beat out a Sikorsky [LMT]-Boeing [BA] team’s Defiant X coaxial rigid rotor helicopter offering for the FLRAA competition. Maj. Gen. Robert Barrie, the Army’s program executive officer for aviation,…

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