“The Army has learned its lesson" from past acquisition disasters, said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who's "very pleased" with FVL. This program is truly different, agreed one of the fathers of the cancelled Comanche, retired Maj. Gen. Rudy Ostovich.
AVX/L3, Bell, Boeing, Karem, and Sikorsky have submitted their designs for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. None of them is a conventional helicopter.
The Army isn’t just replacing old helicopters. It’s building a networked "ecosystem" of mutually supporting manned and unmanned weapons that can drive a flying wedge into Russian and Chinese air defenses.