Walkaround of Sikorsky’s Raider X Compound Helicopter for US Army's FARA Contract at AUSA 21
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- Bill Fell, the principle test pilot at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky unit, with a walkaround of the company’s Raider X compound helicopter at the Association of the United States Army’s 2021 conference and tradeshow in Washington, DC. The novel aircraft, with two coaxial rotor blades and a single pusher propeller, is competing for the US Army’s Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft contract.
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Love this aircraft and love how the technology is scalable. The Raider, the Defiant, and who knows where it could go.
The Leviathan next...😏
Mi 6
Not really that scalable. Those fixed rotors create a lot of vibration.
The raider can get away with it because it only has to deal with one engine. The defiant destroys its transmission and anything bigger would be a death trap. Who knows if Sikorsky can fix it but I wouldn’t make that bet.
@n I would be interested in a source for that information. Lockheed says that new material science and computing power have beaten the vibration. Fifty years ago, the Cheyenne had vibration problems, but material science and computing power have changed a bit since then.
Where it could go? Same as usual... more dead people, more control for bankers, more money to Murder Inc.
In every engineer game I play where you can make a helicopter, I always make a compound coaxial, it’s just so cool to engineer. First I tried a tilt rotor like the V-22 Osprey but it was super unsafe and just not reliable, then my grandfather told me about the compound coaxial since I wanted something fast with VTOL and the ability to hover around a target like a helicopter. I can’t wait to see these replace regular helicopters because they are so much cooler and basically just do everything better.
In what game is that?
@@fred.flintstone4099 AUTOCAD duh
It looks formidable and high tech. Very cool!
What a great looking bird! I remember the ABC where it all started from.
It would look so much cooler if it had the slender streamline shape like the AH-1Z Viper, or RAH-66 Comanche.
Please, give us a glimpse of this puppy, from a maintainers standpoint.
A beautiful helicopter proudly made in Connecticut and Florida !!!
Interesting. I have to say I would prefer hard switches for some key functions rather than simply integrating everything.
180 knots, seems a little slow. I believe the Defiant-X is ~ 280 knots.
Thank you for this walk around I’ve always wondered how big the aircraft is and it’s technical aspects so thanks again!!!
6 troops only?
One of the most advanced helicopters in the world sporting cutting edge compound thrust technology and it’s got a discontinued Garmin GNS 430 in the panel.
Probably a placeholder for what normally goes there to avoid leaking classified systems to public/etc I would assume.
I think I want one of those.
Most of us do honestly this are awesome and modern not only that but they are also fast
Bust in design, need to phase this idea 💡 into Blackhawk design.🤔🇬🇧👍🙏
Forget the F-22, I want one of these! Beautiful aircraft.
That left handed cyclic and shared collective is the Devil's work.
0:34 yikes that gap between the rudder/aelieron and the fuselage,
Sikorsky has the S-97 Raider compete with the Bell+Textron 360 Invictus in the AAS / FARA (armed scout) program.
Meanwhile, the Sikorsky+Boeing SB-1 Defiant competes with the Bell+Lockheed V280 Valor for the FVL (long-range lift) program.
Given how the US defense industry works, it is likely that both companies get one contract each, to keep every factory running, everybody employed.
So if you like both Sikorsky or both Bell designs, get ready for a disappointment.
The Raider has troop capacity while the Invictus does not, but that gives the Invictus better stealth properties, just like the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche had. Not sure why they abandoned that design. Just to push a common scout and transport design when they know it's not very likely they'll get both contracts?
The V280 seems to be the more mature design, faster and longer range. But the SB-1 might offer better handling and safety, as it is not a tilt rotor. And it's smaller, closer to the Blackhawk size. This might really go both ways.
those seats re cramped up..almost no room for accidental safety...! woow
Left Seat LEFT HANDED CONTROLS!
I love it!
Couple of questions?
The shell or body I'm guessing is aluminum?(What about Carbon Fiber?)(Blades as well)
How's the Radar Cross Signature that it leaves behind on radar?(Any Radar absorbing material?)
How does this fair in comparison with Anti Aircraft Artillery?
How does this do in extreme weather flights?
Has anyone ever done a stress test or a destructive test on 1 of these?(Just to see where the failure mode is at)
What about against an EMP as well?
What about the payload or missiles it can carry?
Golden Retriever signing off...…
Sikorsky should have contacted the media company Bellisario over the rights for the name ‘Airwolf’……. Because how cool would that have been? Having a futuristic attack helicopter that actually is called Airwolf!!!
It has a great design, it is like F35 of helicopters.
Ever heard of bell 360 invictus
The F-35 Urg, bleah! Quite the opposite, the Raider X is a fast hot rod, where as the F-35 tops out at Mach 1.6 which pretty pedestrian by any standard--admittedly much faster than a Harrier or A-10 I guess.
Also, we used to talk about Supercruise capability as being a 6th gen capability, well I'm afraid you need to look elsewhere.
I'd rather say the Raider X is the F-22 of helicopters but with the 1990 avionics and computers brought up to date.
@@Ppadira The Bell 360 Invictus looks better, but I don't know how it can justify its existence, when there are drones that do the same thing.
At least the Raider X can be used as a transport, as well as recon/attack helicopter.
@@scratchy996
Well that doesn't mean drones can replace attack choppers anytime soon . May be in future when unmanned choppers wont be a just mere a paper drawing
@@Ppadira Drones are already replacing attack helicopters.
Now my country, Colombia, which is the 4th largest operator of Blackhawks in the world and has the largest military helicopter fleet in Southamerica by far, could start thinking on changing to this new platform. Our own attack version of the Blackhawk, the Arpia IV (Harpy) armed to the teeth with long range NLOS Spike missiles, is an awesome view to behold. They all look as if the Blackhawks were breeded with the Mantis to create the Arpia IV. Just imagine what we could do with a fleet of new Raider X. 🥰
It's better the attack heli , than attack version of medium transport heli like the Blackhawk.
Those are: AH-1 Viper, AH-64 Apache, AW Leonardo T-129, Rooivalk, TAI T-129, Airbus Tiger...
@@serdradion4010 Yeah, but first, each cost triple than the Blackhawk (15 ~ 17 million); second, when we aproached the US to purchase the Apache (45 millions) they said NO.
At the time (the start of the millenium) our transport helos were being shot during the landings and suffered heavy loses because we didn't have heavy close aerial protection, the landings were extremly difficult in the middle of dense high mountain jungles so the only clear spots to disembark the commandos were few and the commuist guerrillas were there waiting for them. We urgently needed a heavy gunned helo to cover our transports landings. We thought the Apache or even the Super Cobra were the answer but the US negative gave us no much choice so in a stroke of creativity we decided to transform the Blackhawk into a heavy armed gunship to protect our troops and thats what we did.
The Arpia I project started almost 20 years ago and today we got the 4th iteration with the heavyly armed Arpia IV packing a huge array of Gatling machin guns, Spike NLOS anti-tank missiles with a range of 25 kilometers, and even the capability to launch the Delilah cruise missile manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI). This of course gave us a much greater capability and more options to move from irregular battle scenarios to use the Arpia in conventional warfare against armored vehicles and main battle tanks, and even in anti-ship rol.
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Leonardo T-129, ex Agusta-Westland costs around 30 mil $, the most economic one and no limits to sell.
Russian MI-35, Chinese Z-10 are even more economic, but probably they don't fit.
@@serdradion4010 Nothing like the Blackhawk Bro. Is simply the best utilitarian helo in the world. Plus is battle tested and is super reliable. In Colombia proved its quality. You ask the colombian armed forces and they could not praise this helo more. We even got a bunch that have been downed twice. Mechanics repaired them and in matter of weeks they are back flying over the combat zones.
Why? Who Colombia plan to fight? Wouldn't you rather have 5 older helicopters than one of this Raider X. You can buy second handed helis from the US at cheap price and your country will be fine. A $100K stinger in a wrong hand can take down one of this and what do you have? Back to square one.
That passenger bay reminds me of the Hind-D. Adding fuel or additional counters against MANPADS seems a better choice...
It looks like something out of an action movie!
Awesome!!!! Now this is the real Airwolf! I'll take one! I look forward to seeing more of your videos! You just earned a new subscriber! :)
I like this and the bell design
OMG the fact that we just brushed past the fact that it has side sticks and a shared collective in the middle is mind boggling. I get that they do that in airplanes but that’s gotta be difficult in helicopters no?
I worked on these helos and never heard bill or any of the other pilots complain about it. I always wondered myself, but I guess with a little training its not a problem.
and of course expensive in maintenance, technology is expensive which mean it will only be buyed in limited numbers (foreign countries)
Need to get rid of the opposite side sticks. Pick a side for each to be on otherwise you’ll have a hard time switching pilots from seat to seat.
How does the pilot push in the circuit breaker for the MFD once it's been pulled?
This is a remake of the Cheyenne, which was also an attack helicopter with a pusher prop, nut it was cancelled in favor of the Cobra which was a serious downgrade, so there is a lot of people who believe that there was some under the table shenanigans that caused the Cheyenne to be dropped. Nice to see the technology being reintroduced, as it really was a loss that Cheyenne wasn't chosen as America's attack Helicopter.
The Cheyenne also had the problem of being a single rotor helicopter with a pusher. Nothing to offset the torque of that single rotor seems like it'd be a problem.
@@zachhoefs9543 the Cheyenne had a third rotor for offsetting the torque. It couldn't fly otherwise.
@@AurumFaber I don't see one.
@@zachhoefs9543 the helicopter in this video isn't the Cheyenne if that's what you mean. This one has two main rotors so that they cancel each other's torque by rotating in opposite directions.
The AH-56A Cheyenne was the helicopter that was scrapped for suspicious reasons.
@@zachhoefs9543 the cheyenne had two tail rotors, one as a prop, much like the raider, and other to offset the torque and turn the aircraft, much like any traditional helicopter design.
The cheyenne also had a built-in gyroscope for balance while that coaxial rotor does the same job for the raider.
The cheyenne had a serious problem with vibration that seems to plague the defiant. Let's hope Sikorsky get at least the raider figured out.
Love the technology, hate the side-by-side seating. An attack helicopter/rotorcraft needs tandem seating. It's a smaller target to frontal enemy fire and it can go faster due to less flat-plate drag.
does it have youtube premium for musics?
The cyclic is on the left side for the left seat but on the right for the right seat?
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Dang with the whole tail setup and kamov like dual rotors I bet thats a dream to fly! What a cool setup. Clean unique engineering all the way! Ole Igor is smiling down from heaven alright.
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I just want to know the safety gare..
Thank you locate Martin
Looks good, but it seems to be very tight inside. No place. And no place for stretcher to carry wounded soldiers ?
It’s intended purpose is for attack and recon, not medivac.
@@fentonpainter7907 Yes, I understand this, but, there are seats for transporting soldiers. This means, this helicopter is also will be used to bring soldiers to somewhere to fight. If they bring soldiers somewhere, than later these soldiers will be picked up by the same helicopter. When the soldiers are leaving the helicopter or when they are coming back and want to enter, they could get shot. Just imagine, how bad it is, if one or more of the soldiers are wounded, they are climbing into the helicopter, but there is no place to lie somewhere.
@@janostoth4315 There is no requirement for the helicopter to have extra seats, as it is purely an attack and reconnaissance vehicle. This is just the prototype, and I suspect the manufacturer just wanted to show there was plenty of spare space in the fuselage. Fitting a few seats is an easy way for them to do that. But in reality it would likely to be used for extra fuel tanks, munitions or electronic warfare equipment etc. Possibly inserting small SF teams in to hostile areas, but troop insertion and extraction isn't it's brief, and the Army has other vehicles for that.
@@janostoth4315 These test aircraft are only 80% scale from a full sized normal acft. They are meant for systems testing not combat readiness.
its a game changer
Thanks you ,For the video!n
Super....Nais !.
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You have the propeller at the back end of the helicopter. Why not install a small jet engine at the back to give it a bii more power.
Hard to know how well it's going to work.
- It's easy to be gee-whiz over the tech innovations.
- It's also easy to be crabby over them, and insist that - especially in combat - the old and proven way is the only way. (Its main competitor for the contract is a very traditional design.)
But how much of an improvement over a traditional design will it be? How reliable will it be? These are questions we don't know the answers to yet.
go see for yourself watch the test flight videos of this lmao wtf you people smoking this has passed alot of flight tests already and has done pretty damn well by all the accounts ive seen idk where some of you are getting this idea that it will never fly and be some paper weight lol wtf yall on
Old and proven helicopters are falling out of the sky over Ukraine right now. Helicopters need to evolve if they want to be able to survive the increased lethality of the types of weapons a modern country can employ against them.
@@Rampant16 exactly
@@Rampant16 To use a Devil's Advocate argument:
Quite a few of the helis "falling out of the sky over Ukraine" are Kamovs with coaxial rotors, which are hardly an old and proven design. Sure, Kamov's been making them that way for some sixty years. But they started doing so under the USSR - so it only would have taken the advocacy of one top general wowed by the Gee-Whiz Factor to get their ball rolling, then a well-connected factory manager could keep it rolling. And no one else builds them that way, which argues against any kind of superiority for the design.
You named it the Raider even though the N-21 is also called the Raider???
Hey Einstein, Thanks for not giving us a complete view of the aircraft
Damn, solid state circuit breakers. Fancy haha
As a former Blackhawk crew chief, I approve!!
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Il cannoncino si può montare ?
Isn’t the collective normally on the left hand side of the pilot? Any reason why Sikorsky reversed it in the Raider?
Helo pilots normally sit right seat, but guessing you know that. The copilot needs to learn to reverse hands, but, yeah, kinda odd that they could not just parallel the hand controls like most helps. Probably the engineers getting too cute and not thinking of actual combat necessity. I'd change it
to normal joystick between the knees and collective on left and probably could shave off a foot at least in width.
Neat idea, lets see if it fulfills the promises. Charles
Am I missing something here? Co pilot must be left handed? Shared collective?
going to be a LOT of cross training accidents
Great Job Sikorsky aviators!
Okay so is this some sort of cross between a blackhawk and a littlebird? Because this isn't a large aircraft.
Needs an ice chest lil table on the inside with a 20inch tv and way more leather to sell civilian market.
Ill buy one!
Two pilots sharing one collective? Is that right?
Flying from the left seat has got to be a confusing transition.
Price ?
But if a circuit breaker or two trip, and the screens are down, are there parachutes?
Everything is redundant in modern aircraft.
Oh Yeah,,,,, How does it turn in hover mode???????
this guy's makin big bucks
With minimum ground clearance on the pusher prop it seems like real-world combat ops are not practical for this aircraft.
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S97, is it name of speaker or heli?
Will this be commercially available?
Can anyone tell me how this chopper can be transported in C-17?
anyone else see this and get the airwolf theme in their head
So many simply new aircraft! Good!!
Not American, but won’t there be infighting between the Airforce and the Army over who gets to utilise this new helicopter?
Want one... Is it good for fishing trips?
If you don't show it flying, does it actually fly?
There are videos on You Tube showing the Raider in Full & Fast Flight
Wonder how this compares with the Osprey.
Where's vargo ?
it's awesome!. I think being able to seat 8-10 soldiers would make it a lot more useful
He did say this one was designed more as a recon/attack craft. Not really designed as a troop carrier, but it can carry 6 if-needed.
I think the thought process was the deployment or extraction of small reconnaissance squads. Or being able to quickly pick up a down helicopter crew. The SB-1 Defiant has the troop carrying capacity at least on par with a Blackhawk
This is meant to replace the Kiowa scout helicopter, not a transport.
You are thinking of the Defiant X which is a version of this that would replace the blackawk helicopter. This is meant for recon mission with attack capability. I do admit that the 6 seats for quick pickup and deploying is a big benefit of this design. Have a recon heli there and need a quick extraction, you dont need to call in a blackhawk or little bird and can use this to get them out of there.
probably wont see this in my lifetime going into actual missions for the army
Hopefully you will, and hopefully I’ll be making these things in real life too.
What happens if one of those flat screens breaks?
There is probably redundancy with the other screens
I'll believe the hype when i actually see these things flying
Already flying
Quite an old design so see come back in to the light, what makes it more applicable now ? It didn't pass the bar in 1967 so why now ? seems like it still has the same issues and only has the same advantages which aren't exactly sought after w
There is hand brake?🤔
Thanks for telling where the vulnerable area are located…Six passengers? So what?
Wonder how much power it pulls at OGE hover in higher density alt.
bout 3.50 said Mr. Lochness Monster, Lockheed Martin Design Engineer.
probably pretty good, also no LTE potential at high DA either.
It's like kamov rotor.. contra rotators rotor.. 🤔
Has the military forgotten how hard it was to hit a Cobra AH1-G? It was so skinny you could not see it beyond 200 meters. Every chopper I see that is not skinny and claims to be an attack helicopter, I remember sitting front seat in a Cobra, watching hundreds of rounds wizz by me and nothing hit. The Cobra was less than half a meter wide.
There is no way a Cobra is less than half a meter wide but I get your point
On the AH-1G, the canopy width was 3'6", fuselage width was 3'.
Half a meter? No
It was quite narrow though but still...
I doubt that size difference has to do with those misses. If you're talking about Vietnam, a lot of gun, missile, and fire control technology has come along.
Auto correct got me. I meant to say a less than a meter. I see where they say 36', so I am correct, less than a meter.
I'm thinking of a bigger raider-X type platform designed around a Gau-8 Avenger with an abundance of external hard-points.
GAU-8 is massive and heavy. That would be a huge waste of time and resources
@@Cplblue Yeah, just too big. There are 20mm versions that might be better.
seems small to weigh 10,000lb
Aircraft can be quite heavy. The frame and skin are probably pretty lightweight but the jet engines, gearbox(es), drive shafts, rotor heads, etc. all are very dense and heavy.
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Can anyone comment on whether it is difficult to fly a helicopter with the stick being controlled by the left hand? I am a fixed wing pilot who has never flown with a stick but am a bit uncomfortable using my left hand on a yoke. It is weird using the left hand stick?
I fly helicopters and that is a serious no for me. The collective works in the left hand because you can only move it up or down. The cyclic controls pitch and roll and requires much more sure touch. The shared collective between the pilots also irritates me.
All these helicopters, manned fighter aircraft, and surface ships have been made obsolete…..by the introduction of the small unmanned drone….Bayraktar
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Nice !
beautiful.
Looks like so much fun to fly.
Indonesia harus ditawari ini paling canggih dan kecepatan 280 km perjam
He mentions how comfortable the seats are but they don't look like they have much adjustments. I was expecting more from a multi million dollar aircraft.
Blackhawk seats are some canvas stretch over a metal frame. So it doesn't take much to be a substantial upgrades over those.
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