U.S. Army Seeks Combined Survivability Payload For FARA

Steve Trimble June 08, 2023
Bell 360 Invictus and Sikorsky Raider attack helicopters
A Bell 360 Invictus (top) and the Sikorsky Raider (bottom) offer different approaches to meeting the Army’s requirements for a new armed scout.
Credit: Bell and Sikorsky
To save weight and space on the U.S. Army’s next scout helicopter, the program manager for the Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) wants to know if the self-protection systems industry is capable yet of combining two critical functions into a single subsystem. Military aircraft now use a...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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