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Sikorsky Starting To Build Raider X Offering For Army’s FARA Program

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, February 20th, 2020

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Sikorsky Starting To Build Raider X Offering For Army’s FARA Program

Sikorsky unveiled its Raider X design which features a larger airframe than the S-97 Raider and a modular open system architecture for avionics systems. Photo: Sikorsky

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky has started building components of the Raider X helicopter, the companies’ offering for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA program) that is headed for a prototype downselect decision in March among five companies. Sikorsky officials detailed the offering for the Army’s program to find its next scout helicopter ahead of a flight test on Thursday with the S-97 Raider, which is an 80 percent model of what Raider X’s eventual design.…

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