future attack reconnaissance aircraft

“It shoots fast, it shoots well, and it shoots accurately."

The Army has awarded contracts to multiple defense contractors to whip up a family of drones that can conduct surveillance and reconnaissance, pose as decoys, wage electronic warfare, and deliver lethal payloads alongside the service's next-generation helicopter

The Army is on the hunt for a swarm of drones that can conduct surveillance, pose as decoys, wage electronic warfare, and even deliver lethal payloads in an airborne assist to the service's next-generation attack and reconnaissance helicopters

Boeing on Tuesday finally revealed its bid for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition that's intended to replace both the Army's retired OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout copters and half of the service's AH-64 Apache fleet in the coming year

The Army is currently on track to officially select a brand new armed scout helicopter by some time in 2020, and with several future vertical life prototypes flexing their muscles in a bid for the freakishly lucrative contract, the service's chief advocacy group decided to remind the world where the inspiration for its new copter really came from

Undeterred by decades of failure, the U.S. Army is trying again to acquire a new scout helicopter