US Army FARA Scout VTOL META Thread

That's a little better.



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a reply to: anzha
Wonder why they didnt a variable jet exhaust in a NOTAR setup instead of a pivoting tail rotor..

Lockheed has begun building the Raider X prototype, even though no decision has been made yet.

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Why not?Lockheed have always been pretty brash with its selling of airframe ideas..Well they used to be....I can see the Raider becoming a part in the future.If not a stepping stone into something better..

Sikorsky and Bell.

Raider-X and Invictus.

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And the FARA Timeline, at least until it gets borked:

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a reply to: anzha

So until next Monday then.

Components are being built for FARA.

FARA

if they are using the same design pathway like the X series fighter it wont take long to get one airborne.Any ideas on the 20mm they will be using?Are Hellfires still a thing or is something better in the pipeline?Smaller/faster missiles a path forward maybe?

The Army could potentially field two FVL aircraft, if they're careful about it.

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FLRAA was expected to be downselected this month, after being pushed back from September, but General McConville said yesterday that the decision will come "in the next few months".

AUSA 2022 — Army officials spent this year predicting that a decision on the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft could come in September, and then changed that to October. Industry speculation widely expected an announcement to come by the end of the month. But today, the Army’s top officer threw cold water on the excitement, hinting that the decision could continue to slide by several months.

“Within the next few months, we’ll downselect for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft,” Gen. James McConville, the chief of staff of the Army, said during a speech during the annual Association of the United States Army conference.

The FLRAA is among the Army’s top 35 modernization priority programs, under the service’s future vertical lift portfolio. The future helicopter is set to replace the Army’s decades-old Black Hawk.

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Beancounters?
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May not have gotten the answer they want or expected. Now have to CYA to minimize the almost inevitable protest and get the internal factions to stop their infighting.

That'd be my bet.

Bell's Invictus is awaiting engines.

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And the engines are delayed:

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a reply to: anzha
Getting the CNC guys to catch up with the CAD Monkeys sounds like..3D printing could be an option but depends on stress loading on the part..

Seems like another delay for FARA due to the engine:

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a reply to: anzha
Parts supply this time looks like.