Lockheed Martin to continue with X2, despite FLRAA and FARA setbacks

Despite setbacks with the US Army, Lockheed Martin will continue to develop and offer its X2 technologies to the international market. (Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin is to continue developing its X2 technologies for the international market despite suffering setbacks with its offerings to the US Army.

Speaking to
Janes
ahead of the IQPC International Military Helicopter (IMH) 2024 conference in London running from 27 to 29 February, Jay Macklin, business development director at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, said that the compound-helicopter X2 technologies developed by the company to increase the speed of rotorcraft would continue to be honed and refined despite their being rejected by the US Army for its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) requirement, and the service cancelling its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA).