OH-58 Replacement: A Closer Look At The US Army’s Failed $2 Billion Future Air Reconnaissance Aircraft Program

In February 2024, the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) was added to the US Department of Defense’s impressive list of expensive canceled projects. FARA was an Army program was was part of the Future Vertical Lift program and was meant to develop a successor to the retired Vietnam-era Bell OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopter. FARA’s cancelation is 20 years after the famous cancelation of the BoeingSikorsky RAH-66 Comanche stealth helicopter that never was.