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Old 16th Dec 2022, 02:44
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Commando Cody
 
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Originally Posted by CTR
Add a second engine on FARA, and you have a Boeing Apache replacement, not a Kiowa replacement (admittedly the original FARA spec is far from a Kiowa).

This will not make Boeing happy. With all the FARA specification changes, Boeing could rightly file a protest to request the FARA competition be reopened.
The Army mandated that FARA must have a single engine, that Army would specif. In fact, it is delays in supplying that engine that has slipped the flight test progrm for FARA. Bell finished its prototype a few months ago, and Sikorsky's I think is now complete or nearly so, but both are awaiting engines.

FARA already is intended to replace part of the Apache fleet.
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