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Sikorsky announces supplier team for S-97 RAIDER helicopter program

Washington, Usa - The industry will invest about 75 percent and suppliers investing about 25 percent

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. has selected 35 companies to join its team assembling two prototype S-97 RAIDER helicopters for evaluation by the US military. Self-funded by Sikorsky and its team members, the RAIDER program will demonstrate the military applications of Sikorsky’s break-through X2 rotorcraft design, which proved its capability in 2010 to double the c...

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Rome, Italy, 01/13/2012 17:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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