Army canceling Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program

By Dan Schere / February 8, 2024 at 6:46 PM
The Army announced today it is canceling the multibillion-dollar Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, one of the service's highly touted Future Vertical Lift programs, at the conclusion of prototyping activities this fiscal year. The Army’s cancellation of one of its major aviation modernization programs comes about a month before the planned release of the fiscal year 2025 budget. The service stated Thursday that among its reasons for the cancelation is that leaders determined “the increased capabilities it offered could...

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