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SASless
The Sikorsky view.....which towards the end of the article the question about if there is room for/need for the Tiltrotor and the new Sikorsky designs.....and the Sikorsky VP suggests that is the case....there is he says.
He qualifies his statement by offering a couple of criteria that should be used in making the distinction between the two concepts.
The question then becomes....how does the DOD make those decisions.....what factors should they use to score the Pro's and Con's of the two different aircraft designs?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...gram-officials
An illustration of how things change as more is learned is in that article. In 2019 the Vice President, Sikorsky Innovations stated,
"There is significant international and commercial interest in the technology. It will be interesting to see what fraction of traditional helicopter applications transition to this capability.". But in 2022 at the recent Heli-Expo Conference, Sikorsky's Vice President of Global Military and Commercial Systems stated, “We initially thought we would have to apply that to everything. But the benefit of what that brings in terms of agility is not so important in the commercial space. Speed is nice but from an overall efficiency perspective we don’t think it’s the right thing for commercial".