Originally Posted by
Commando Cody
Another statement concerns me, "We showed that 230 knots that's what the Army asked for..." . Last I heard, what the Army asked for was 250 knots as the threshold, which the SB>1 team originally claimed they'd be able to achieve. Hopefully the Army hasn't lowered the requirements to accommodate one of the contractors.
The FLRAA program speed requirements have indeed been lowered in addition to lots of other requirements changes over the last year... this doesn't change the fact that SB>1 had a design Vh much higher than 230 knots and it's taken a long time to get to this reduced goal.