Russia Inadvertently Shoots Down $2 Bln US Army Scout Copter Program

"The US Army is terminating its $7 billion Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) after spending at least $2 billion on the project.

The decision, announced by acquisition officials this week as part of a broad overhaul of purchasing priorities, comes over five years after the FARA program’s approval as a prospective armed scout helicopter design meant to plug a gap in the Army’s aviation branch’s capabilities.
The Army slashed FARA, pouring money into the latest variant of the Black Hawk, the CH-47F Block II Chinook transport, as well as programs to improve its drone reconnaissance capability, with Army Chief of Staff Randy George saying the shakeup was the result of observations in the field of NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, which he implied had effectively shown manned reconnaissance to be obsolete." Sputnik