Oct 9, 2023 · Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, introduces RAIDER X®, its concept for a fast, agile, survivable compound coaxial helicopter that will equip future aviators to address evolving peer and near-peer threats in the most difficult environments.

Oct 9, 2018 · According to the Boeing, the revised attack variant of their helicopter, with the distinctive coaxial rotor system, is designed to destroy tanks, armoured and non-armoured ground targets, and enemy troops and helicopters both on the front line and in tactical reserves.

The Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program was initiated by the United States Army in 2018 to develop a successor to the Bell OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopter as part of the Future Vertical Lift program.

Feb 12, 2025 · The most advanced attack helicopter in the world in 2025 is the Apache Guardian, officially the Boeing AH-64E. Armed to the teeth, pilots are cocooned in a titanium-plated cockpit, with a visually controlled gun, hellfire missiles, and Hydra rockets at their disposal.

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An attack helicopter is an armed helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the offensive capability of engaging ground targets such as enemy infantry, military vehicles and fortifications. Due to their heavy armament they are sometimes called helicopter gunships.

The Sikorsky Raider X (stylized in all-caps as RAIDER X) (Sikorsky S-102 [1]) is a compound helicopter concept with two coaxial rotors and a single pusher propeller, designed by the Sikorsky Aircraft division of Lockheed Martin for the United States Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. The Raider X concept was announced in ...

Mar 3, 2020 · Boeing is offering a new, clean-sheet design helicopter for the Army’s future attack reconnaissance aircraft, or FARA, program, the company announced March 3.

Oct 10, 2022 · AUSA 2022 — With no successor to the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in sight, Boeing has begun floating ideas for a next-generation Apache that the Army may need to contend with future...

The idea of an attack helicopter can trace its history back to the early days of World War II when Russia and the US experimented with using slow-moving fixed-wing airplanes for stealthy nighttime attacks.