From R&W:
The compound helicopter, one of two Sikorsky built initially to satisfy the Army’s need for an armed scout helicopter to replace the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, now has 55 total flight hours. It has flown to 207 knots in level cruise flight, performed 60-degree banks and risen to 8,000 feet.
Raider is flying almost weekly and at up to 180 knots — well past the sprint speed of a conventional helicopter — on almost every outings, said Chief Test Pilot Bill Fell. The goal was to fly at 220 knots, but the aircraft might not make that benchmark in its current configuration, Fell said.
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The above from R&W. Knowing the goals of the program this has to be considered a major setback to both the program and a failure of the ABC concept to produce a leap forward in rotorcraft. Taken with the lack of progress on the SB-1 one has to wonder if Sikorsky would have been better off not building hardware and hope a paper proposal based on empty promises could yield a development contact. Now that they have generated real data it will be hard to put the failure Genie back in the bottle.