Originally Posted by
BLloydK
But here they are still in the big program paper chase with the so many experts of Lockheed and Boeing and Sikorsky now developing a one engine (still waiting the 15 years now ITEP magic engine) Raider X or FARA FLARA or
ITEP did eventually show up, but too late for FARA to survive (for either Bell or Sikorsky/L-M).
My current prediction is that the ITEP will get installed in a few years, and then will begin begin making chips in Blackhawk/S-70 transmissions all over the world...
... because nobody in the US Army wants to foot the bill for a UH-60 Main Transmission Redesign and then pay to install it on over 2000 helicopters.
Perhaps in a few years when the craze for eVTOL subsides (
see the article on the main R&N page) an engineering team can be put together to pursue the Y version of the X2...