Boeing and Sikorsky's SB>1 Defiant helicopter. Army Program Executive Office, Aviation
Business Insider/Miltary.com: Special Operations Command wants to use the Army's futuristic troop-carrying helicopter
* US Special Operations Command is eyeing the Army's helicopter programs for replacements to the helicopters it uses for special-operations missions.
* SOCOM sees the Army's Future Long Range Assault Aircraft effort as potentially yielding a replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk, but it's not sure the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program will produce an alternative to the MH-6 Little Bird.
The head of Special Operations Command's helicopter programs is counting on the conventional Army's Future Vertical Lift effort to replace SOCOM's MH-60 Sea Hawk fleet. But he's not sure it will work as an alternative to the MH-6 Little Bird.
Army modernization officials recently selected Bell Textron's V-280 Valor tilt-rotor helicopter prototype and the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 coaxial-rotor Defiant helicopter prototype for the next phase of its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) effort to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk.
The service also selected Sikorsky's Raider X coaxial helicopter and Bell's "360 Invictus" single-rotor concept for the second phase of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, which is intended to fill the gap left by the retirement of the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters.
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WNU Editor: U.S. Special Operations has a few choices.
