The U.S. Army is on the lookout for a new attack helicopter. It wants one as it plans to replace the aging Bell OH-58 Kiowa with something more modern and more capable. To do that, it kicked off back ...

The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, an abrupt change of direction that marks one of the department’s ...

Sikorsky has completed 90% of the construction of its Raider X competitive prototype (CP) helicopter, its submission for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition, the ...

There are no current plans for the Army to replace the Apache. Instead, modernization is the strategy—using periodic upgrades ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Someday, the Army could welcome a new scout helicopter into its ...

The U.S. Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is expecting to replace more than 50 percent of its MH-60 Black Hawk and AH/MH-6 Little Bird fleets starting in the early 2030s.

Back in 2018, in an effort to come up with a more modern helicopter for its needs, a potential successor of the Bell OH-58 Kiowa, the U.S. Army launched the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA ...

GE Aerospace’s long-delayed Improved Turbine Engine (ITE) may soon be delivered to its first customers. The US Army on 4 October said it anticipates delivering the prototype engine to helicopter ...

Laser-guided Hydra 70 rockets, Hellfire missiles, Spike “Non Line of Sight” weapons, the emerging Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), and even unanticipated, yet-to-exist weapons will all fire from ...

A multibillion-dollar program to field the Army’s next-generation scout helicopter is going on the chopping block as part of changes to manned and unmanned Army aviation systems. On Thursday, the Army ...

An artist's rendering shows the Bell 360 Invictus attack reconnaissance helicopter. Bell revealed the helicopter design as its entry into the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft ...

The US Army on 25 March selected Bell and Sikorsky to move forward with its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft-Competitive Prototype (FARA-CP) programme. The two companies edged out AVX Aircraft-L3 ...