COVID-19 Jumbles U.S. Army Armed Scout Schedule; Fielding Date Holds

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
A military axiom holds that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. It appears to apply to the two-year-old acquisition plan for the U.S. Army’s next armed scout helicopter, which failed to hold out against the disruptive onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. The engineering and manufacturing...

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