{"id":97071,"date":"2024-07-29T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/closer-look-us-army-2-billion-fara-fail\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:00:11","slug":"oh-58-replacement-a-closer-look-at-the-us-armys-failed-2-billion-future-air-reconnaissance-aircraft-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=97071","title":{"rendered":"OH-58 Replacement: A Closer Look At The US Army&#8217;s Failed $2 Billion Future Air Reconnaissance Aircraft Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In February 2024, the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) was added to the US Department of Defense&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopter\/\">helicopter<\/a>. FARA&#8217;s cancelation is 20 years after the famous cancelation of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-sikorsky-rah-66-commanche-helicopter-facts-list\/\">the BoeingSikorsky RAH-66 Comanche stealth helicopter that never was<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cancelation of FARA is the Army&#8217;s third armed scout cancelation and now it will move to drone solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,10511,816,412,6438,8513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bell-aircraft-corporation","category-helicopter","category-military","category-sikorsky","category-us-army"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97072,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97071\/revisions\/97072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}