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

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky has started building componentsof the Raider X helicopter, the companies’ offering for the Army’s Future Attack ReconnaissanceAircraft (FARA program) that is headed for a prototype downselect decision in March among fivecompanies.Sikorsky officials detailed the offering for the Army’s program to find its next scout helicopterahead of a flight test on Thursday with the S-97 Raider, which is an 80 percent model of whatRaider X’s eventual design.“We have the big things like the rotor heads being built, our fuselage is already being built.We’re making a tremendous amount of progress on the build of the aircraft now,” Tim Malia, thecompany’s director for FARA, said.