Several posters here talking about Raider-X having a serious speed advantage over Invictus and Evalu8er mentions closing the gap to a V-280 escort with Raider-X since it will be much faster than the lift compounded Invictus. Sikorsky loves this talk, but find me an official statement where they’re claiming performance substantially over the FARA targets. Raider made 207 knots from a YT-706 and a cleaner/smaller aircraft with no weapons and no mission equipment. FARA has to carry a much heavier weapons load out and probably a thousand+ pounds of mission equipment that Raider didn’t have to. Raider-X is larger in every dimension, draggier, and much heavier than Raider for only modestly more installed power (though better fuel burn). Both of these aircraft are rumored to be well over the original 14,000 lb target with all the past comments about FARA requirements “violating the known laws of physics”, and Raider-X is likely heavier than Invictus.
Raider-X will be slower than Raider. It might even be slower than Invictus which has the advantage of lower drag and more installed power (though less aerodynamic efficiency as speed increases further). Both are probably designed to cruise right around the 180 knot Vh mark. The challenge is nearly every single main rotor helicopter can achieve Vh in flight test without much trouble… and very few ABC/X-2 aircraft have.