Originally Posted by
SplineDrive
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.
As of Dec. 2019 I believe they were still @ 250 knots and in their Dec. 2020. announcement I believe the Army said the reason they were limiting further competition to just Valor and Defiant was because they said they were the only two competitors they were confident could meet the requirement. You are correct in stating, though, that even if the requirement was lowered, Sikorsky Boeing said they could do 250.