In a move that caught defense circles by surprise, the Army announced Thursday that it is canceling its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) helicopter program. The announcement means that ...

The Army also needed to shift funding for aviation programs so that it could keep the production lines for CH-47 Chinooks and UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, the news release says. The FARA’s ...

Last Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it would cancel its next-generation Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) helicopter program after having invested some $2.4 billion into its ...

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The Army previously held a competition to design, build and test FARA prototypes to fill a gap created by the divestiture of the OH-58 helicopter, shown. (Cpl. Koby Saunders/U.S. Marine Corps ...

One of the signature helicopters of special operations forces ... The Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, or FARA, was seen as the solution. Planners expected that aircraft ...

The powerful helicopter can transport 11 troops for combat ... to create a future attack reconnaissance aircraft, known as FARA, to update its war aviation equipment. The contract was worth ...

According to the mandatory requirements, FARA candidates were required to ... the Invictus and the Raider X suffered the same fate of the other helicopters that were supposed to replace the ...

Sikorsky unveiled its prototype of the Raider X next-gen scout helicopter, one of two contenders for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. [Credit: Sikorsky] Lockheed ...

AH-64 Apache attack helicopters as well as to power FARA. Instead, Bush said the Army will spend the newly available money on Black Hawks, the latest variant of the CH-47F Block II Chinook cargo ...