News coverage of the Army’s plan to replace its cold war rotorcraft fleet has focused recently on selection of a successor to the ubiquitous Black Hawk helicopter. Bell Textron’s TXT proposal to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DENVER — Since the Army canceled plans to develop a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft earlier this year, the two anticipated ...

DENVER — The Army recently ran the new GE Aerospace T901 next-gen helicopter engine on Sikorsky’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) prototype, gathering data ahead of a planned first flight ...

The Bell 360 Invictus prototype for the US Army's FARA competition is substantially complete, pending first flight in late 2024. (Bell Flight) The US Army cancelled the Future Attack Reconnaissance ...

Multinational special operations forces on an MH-6 Little Bird helicopter and a boat approach a simulated enemy position during a demonstration at the 2018 International Special Operations Forces week ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about vertical flight aircraft & advanced aviation technology. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, announced on April 16 ...

The U.S. Army has canceled plans for an armed scout helicopter, dealing a blow to Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky Aircraft, which employs hundreds of people in Palm Beach County. Now questions are being ...

The Raider X is a next-generation helicopter under development by Sikorsky that shows signs of a striking change to the US ...

When the U.S. Army retired their fleets of OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopters, they ran into a rather sticky predicament as a result of their short-sighted haste: they had no adequate ...