By Dan Parsons | April 1, 2021
Estimated reading time 7 minutes, 33 seconds.
Two teams vying to build the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) are advancing to the second competitive demonstration phase of an ongoing effort to develop a suitable replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk by 2030.
Both Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team will enter Phase II of competitive demonstration and risk reduction (CD&RR) for FLRAA through two “other transaction authority” project agreements, awarded by the Army’s Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium on March 30.
The U.S. Army plans to choose either the Bell V-280 Valor (top) or a refined version of the SB>1 Defiant, called Defiant X, for FLRAA in 2022. Bell/Sikorsky-Boeing Photos