"The Future Attack Reconnaissance Helo Concept" Topic
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Tango01  | 24 Mar 2020 3:26 p.m. PST |
"Boeing is offering a new, clean-sheet design helicopter for the Army's future attack reconnaissance aircraft, or FARA, program, the company announced March 3. The platform — which is currently nameless — features a thrust compounded single-main rotor with a six-bladed rotor system, a single engine, tandem seating, a modular cockpit with a reconfigurable display and a fly-by-wire design. "This is a perfect opportunity to go after a clean-sheet approach," said Shane Openshaw, FARA program manager at Boeing. It "meets the requirement and gives us an opportunity to innovate within that trade space on a clean-sheet design and not be constrained by an existing design to come to a solution," he added…" link
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| arealdeadone | 25 Mar 2020 3:43 p.m. PST |
Remember the RAH-66 Commanche!?! Billions spent and then the project got cancelled! And the US Army just deactivated all its remaining OH-58D ARHs and is offloading them to allies for free (Greece (70), Croatia (16) and Tunisia (24)have acquired 110 between them)! I don't think the US Army knows what it wants. |
| Gunny B | 25 Mar 2020 10:05 p.m. PST |
Single engine? Bold move….. |
 javelin98 | 26 Mar 2020 5:56 p.m. PST |
I suspect that Congressional pork-barrel meddling is behind this, as usual. |
| Tango01 | 26 Mar 2020 10:19 p.m. PST |
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