The Army and Bell Helicopter have worked out an agreement to move forward with the troubled Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter, now expected to cost about $9 million per copy, according to Brig. Gen. Stephen Mundt, director of Army aviation. The low-rate initial production aircraft were supposed to cost around $5.5 million each when the ARH contract was awarded to Bell Helicopter Textron in July 2005, Mundt said. "We expected this aircraft was probably going to cost us about $7.5 million when...
