AVX/L3, Bell, Boeing, Karem, and Sikorsky have submitted their designs for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. None of them is a conventional helicopter.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The Army isn’t just replacing old helicopters. It’s building a networked “ecosystem” of mutually supporting manned and unmanned weapons that can drive a flying wedge into Russian and Chinese air defenses.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“What you see before you is an aircraft … providing a low-risk path for the Army to meet the timeline, the schedule, and the cost objectives.”
By Richard Whittle
How does a company best known for designing tiltrotors, which are notoriously wide, meet an Army requirement for a scout aircraft that can fly down narrow streets?
By Richard Whittle
Only one contender for the Army’s future scout is derived from an aircraft that’s actually flown. Guess which?
By Richard Whittle
AVX is still a long shot in its bid to build the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, but their unique design is worth a long look.
By Paul McLeary
The Army Modernization Strategy aims to counter Russia by 2028 and China by 2035 — but Congress can’t pass a budget for this year.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Modernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Mechanical fixes kept the SB>1 compound helicopter grounded for weeks this summer, but the Sikorsky-Boeing team insists they can catch up.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Whatever their aircraft is like, Boeing’s PR strategy is definitely stealthy. There’s a strategic reason for that.
By Richard Whittle Sikorsky says their Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft design will fly faster, with bigger weapons, than archrival Bell’s. Bell says theirs will be cheaper and more reliable.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
With its trademark tiltrotors too big for the Army’s FARA requirement, Bell is squeezing every ounce of performance out of a helicopter. Will it be fast enough?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Flying sideways, backwards, in pirouettes, and in a markedly quiet stealth mode, the hybrid helicopter-turboprop demonstrated the maneuverability the Army considers essential to survive high-tech future battles with Russia or China.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The company is confident that there is no inherent flaw in the design. Instead, they say, there was a software error that would have hamstrung any aircraft — and that error won’t happen again.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Leaked extracts from an Army review tell only part of the story, a 12-year saga of extensive research, development, and testing, the company argues.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
