WHAT IS THE FUTURE VERTICAL LIFT PROGRAM?
With its Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program to create a new family of multi-role rotorcraft, the Army is leading the U.S. Department of Defense plan to field a new generation of rotorcraft for the first time in four decades.
As the Army puts it, the program’s goal is to develop technologies that improve speed, range, agility, endurance and sustainability. The FVL initiative officially began in 2009.
The FVL program aims to replace current light, medium-light, medium,
heavy, and ultra helicopters with next- gen aircraft. The Army started the FVL program with its effort to replace the medium-lift UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that went into operation in 1979, labeling that work the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. It then added the light scout plan to replace the OH-58 Kiowa, dubbing it the Future Attack and Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program.
In March 2020, the Army chose Bell and Sikorsky as the final competitors in the FARA program, with Bell’s 360
Invictus featuring a four-bladed rotor, open tail rotor and lift-sharing wing versus Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider X that features a compound design, using twin coaxial rotors to provide lift and a pusher propeller to enhance speed.
In March 2021, the Army picked Bell and Sikorsky-Boeing to compete in the FLRAA program with two radically different styles of aircraft. The Bell V-280 is a tiltrotor aircraft similar to the V-22 Osprey, with rotors at the end of its wings that swivel. The Sikorsky/Boeing Defiant X is a compound helicopter like the Raider.
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