Major U.S. Rotorcraft Companies Weigh Military Future After FARA

Sikorsky helicopter

Sikorsky fired up the T901 engine in its Raider X prototype in April, ahead of the engine’s installation in UH-60s.

Credit: Sikorsky
The February cancellation of the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft put the nation’s rotary-wing industrial base into a state of uncertainty: With $2 billion spent on what was the service’s top modernization policy out the window, what would be next? The only certainty, according to...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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