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How combat helicopter losses in Ukraine brought down US Army’s FARA strategy

Reading between the lines of the service’s termination announcement, its leaders had become increasingly concerned about the poor survivability rate for combat helicopters during the war between the armed forces of Kyiv and Moscow.
Photo: Poor Russian tactics have contributed to its loss of multiple Ka-52s in Ukraine

“We are learning from the battlefield – especially in Ukraine,” army chief of staff said as the FARA requirement was cancelled on 8 February. “Aerial reconnaissance has fundamentally changed. Sensors and weapons mounted on a variety of unmanned systems and in space are more ubiquitous, further reaching, and more inexpensive than ever before.” Rather than continue to plough billions of dollars into the FARA project, the service instead has opted to “rebalance its aviation modernisation investments across new and enduring platforms”.

“To maintain strategic advantage means accelerating the pace of change,” the US Army’s director of aviation said. He also confirms that the lessons of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine “played very large” in the army’s reassessing its equipment needs. “We must speed our transition from a counterinsurgency force to one postured for large-scale combat operations. We must invest in capabilities that will deter China and Russia in the near-term.

As it was not involved in the FARA contest, the decision to shut down the armed scout need delivered a welcome boost for two of Boeing’s current aircraft programmes. Using released funds, the army will make fresh investments in the AH-64E Apache and CH-47F Chinook Block II. “The army is going to be flying Chinooks and Apaches into 2060,” notes Boeing’s senior director, business development, vertical lift programmes.

The service will continue fielding AH-64Es until fiscal year 2027/2028 under current plans, with production also taking place for new export customers Australia and Poland, who will take up to a combined 125 examples. “We are going to continue to build the aircraft through until the end of the decade,” says Bellew, who is confident that the company also will secure additional international sales for the type.

Jay Macklin, Sikorsky’s director, army FVL and innovations business development, notes that the US military will continue to fly UH-60-series aircraft until 2070... It also continues to advance work to enable the Black Hawk to perform autonomous missions.


Instead of FARA, the service will continue to employ the Apache for such tasks, in concert with assets including the future tactical uncrewed aircraft system (FTUAS) and so-called air-launched effects (ALEs).

The service has already performed trials involving the Black Hawk deploying Altius-600 UAS. Such a system could be employed as an ALE, extending platform reach by providing surveillance, electronic warfare capability or kinetic effect. The army will later this year also begin fielding Spike NLOS with its V6-standard AH-64Es.

Questions remain around the complex task of managing airspace congestion and deconflicting assets in an era where manned rotorcraft will operate in the same battlespace – and in many cases at the same altitude – as multiple UAS and ALEs.

“As we fly very low altitude, high speed is not a priority – in fact, we question it,” a French army official says, noting that nap-of-the-earth operations – used to protect against detection and hostile fire – require aircraft to operate at slower speeds.

Other speakers at the recent conference noted the importance of not drawing snap conclusions from the war in Ukraine – and especially regarding Russia’s poor performance using attack helicopters.

HEAVY LOSSES
Kyiv claims to have destroyed 310 Russian helicopters since Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, although this total cannot be independently verified. Losses have included multiple examples of the Ka-52 and Mi-28N.
“Ukrainian and Russian aviation capabilities – and tactics in particular – are different to NATO, so it is difficult to draw conclusions,” a British Army source notes. “Russian helicopters started [combat operations] by flying in daylight and at height. Their aircraft protection systems are outdated, and they have no mission management. “Appropriate ‘shaping’ options are also required,” the official says, referring to the need for supporting ground forces, artillery, electronic warfare and cyber techniques to reduce the risk for helicopters as part of an operating package.

“We must draw the right lessons from the war in Ukraine,” the same source says. “Proliferation of air defence is not a new problem – we have been countering it for decades with our technology and our tactics. Vulnerability is a constant reality.”

Referring to future operations with a mix of manned, uncrewed and autonomous systems, the source notes: “By combining these different capabilities we can continue to deliver a competitive advantage.”

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¿Alguien sabe si los 17 Apache Mk1 (AH1) que retira Reino Unido antes de tiempo (entre 20 y 23 años de servicio) se han vendido de segunda mano?

ruso escribió:¿Por qué el H135 ya no lleva las superficies verticales en el estabilizador horizontal de cola (o como se llame) que sí llevan el EC135 y otros helos con genes MBB?

En mi opinión ha mejorado estéticamente porque, excepto las del Bo 105, siempre me han parecido feas.

alejandro_ escribió:

¿Alguien sabe si los 17 Apache Mk1 (AH1) que retira Reino Unido antes de tiempo (entre 20 y 23 años de servicio) se han vendido de segunda mano?

Algunos ya se han vendido, dos fuselajes a Australia para apoyar el entrenamiento del personal antes de la llegada del AH-64E. Ocho han ido a centros de formación en Lyneham, Wiltshire. Con otros se va a hacer lo mismo pero sin precisar la cifra o destino.

Si hubiese un cliente interesado tiene el problema de que es una variante algo diferente a las principales, con lo que implica en logística.

Orel escribió:

alejandro_ escribió:

¿Alguien sabe si los 17 Apache Mk1 (AH1) que retira Reino Unido antes de tiempo (entre 20 y 23 años de servicio) se han vendido de segunda mano?

Algunos ya se han vendido, dos fuselajes a Australia para apoyar el entrenamiento del personal antes de la llegada del AH-64E. Ocho han ido a centros de formación en Lyneham, Wiltshire. Con otros se va a hacer lo mismo pero sin precisar la cifra o destino.

Si hubiese un cliente interesado tiene el problema de que es una variante algo diferente a las principales, con lo que implica en logística.

Es cierto, no me acordaba, tiene mayores peculiaridades que las habituales de cualquier cliente.

China’s Heavy Attack Z-21 Helicopter Spotted For 1st Time
China is developing a new attack helicopter that appears to be in the same weight class as the US AH-64 and the Russian Mi-28/Ka-52: the Z-21


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Orel escribió:

China’s Heavy Attack Z-21 Helicopter Spotted For 1st Time
China is developing a new attack helicopter that appears to be in the same weight class as the US AH-64 and the Russian Mi-28/Ka-52: the Z-21...