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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it would cancel its next-generation Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) helicopter program after having invested some $2.4 billion into its development ...

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 ...

War is changing fast. It is hard for the people who plan for the military to keep up. A new weapon can seem like an idea when it is being made but by the time it is finished it is already old news.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, announced on April 16 that it was cutting its staff by as many as 400 engineers. “As a result of the U.S. Army’s recent decision to cancel the Future Attack ...

Sikorsky unveiled its prototype of the Raider X next-gen scout helicopter, one of two contenders for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. [Credit: Sikorsky] Sikorsky ...

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 ...

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 ...