Sikorsky has completed 90% of the construction of its Raider X competitive prototype (CP) helicopter, its submission for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition, the ...

Earlier today, we got a glimpse of the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant, as the U.S. Army’s possible future helicopter traveled for over 800 miles between West Palm Beach, Florida, and Nashville, ...

There is no question about it that the largest combat deployment of American military helicopters took place during the Vietnam War. Due to the nature of the country's terrain, helos were basically ...

The S-97 RAIDER, solely funded by Sikorsky is the only representative FARA aircraft flying today and provides risk reduction for Sikorsky's FARA concept, RAIDER X®, a fast, agile, survivable compound ...

The Sikorsky Raider X was 90% complete in June 2022 at the company's West Palm Beach facility. The aircraft is shown here with the turreted cannon under the nose and with the weapons bay door open, ...

Sikorsky's Raider X prototype at the company's West Palm Beach, Florida factory, in September 2023. (Lockheed Martin Corporation – Sikorsky) Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky's Raider X, the company ...

DENVER — Since the Army canceled plans to develop a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft earlier this year, the two anticipated competitors have both moved to make use of their work on the program.

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Prototype designs competing to be the US Army’s new Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) likely will not fly until 2024, according to army officials. While Sikorsky’s Raider X and Bell’s 360 ...

The Army calls the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) a “knife fighter” for the future battlefield. This out-front platform will fly into the most demanding and contested environments and ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), today introduced RAIDER X™, its concept for an agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter, ...

The demonstrations were meant to show the S-97 Raider’s agility and the program’s status to the U.S. Army personnel working on the Future Vertical Lift program. Sikorsky demonstrated the S-97 Raider, ...