The Army didn’t want this striking rotorcraft, but could it be what NATO needs?

FARNBOROUGH, England—Two years ago, the Army changed its mind about buying a new attack helicopter. “We called that Raider-X for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program for the U.S. Army. I ran that aircraft chained to the ground, getting ready to go do a flight test in that aircraft. So we never got to fly that aircraft,” said Bill Fell, test pilot for Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. That helicopter lost its bid for the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program.