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1. Presented to GEN Shinseki
14 July 2000
US Army Aviation & Missile
Research, Development and Engineering Center
US Army Aviation and Missile Command,
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
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2. What is FTR?
What is FTR?
• Envisioned as DoD’s Future Cargo Logistics Transport
VTOL Air Vehicle :
• Provides New Heavy Lift and Vertical Maneuver
Capabilities for Objective Force
• Supports the CINCs’ Logistics Mobility on the Battlefield
• Support Littoral, Combat Support, and Dominant Maneuver, and
Air Assault Operations
• Replacement for CH-47* Chinook & potentially CH-53 Super
Stallion
• Complements other Logistics Systems - Strategic & Tactical
• Why a Joint Program?
Need Official
• Commonality
Joint Program
• AFFORDABILTY
Designation
* Objective Force would require retention of some
Medium Lift capability like the CH-47F
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3. Notional Requirements
Notional Requirements
Band
Band
@ 4,000 ft/95oF
@ 4,000 ft/95oF
Speed 175 - 300 kts
Focus on
Focus
Payload 10 - 26 tons 20-ton FCS
20-ton FCS
Range 300 - 1000 km (combat radius)
Opn’l Capability Intra-theater, unprepared surfaces
Self-Deployment 2100 nm, unrefueled, (sea-level, std day)
Projected Missions Port alleviation, air mechanization
for Future Combat Systems (FCS), air assault, forward
logistics, and ship-to-shore cargo delivery
Affordability Operating &Support (O&S) Costs
20% lower than CH-47F
Rapid Mobility and Focused Logistics
Faster and Farther for the Warfighter
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4. “Responsive”
“Responsive”
Future Transport Rotorcraft
Future Transport Rotorcraft
30
Tactical / Operational
25 Vertical Takeoff
Army Hot Day
20 tons @ 500 km (4,000 ft / 95°F)
20 20 min Reserve
15
Payload, tons
FTR VDTR
FTR Helo
CH-47F
10
CH-47D
V-22 based FTR Tilt Rotor
5
QTR
CH-53E Mi-26
0 V-22
0 250 500 750 1,000 1,250 1,500
Mission Radius, km
• Get there fast, from far away.
• Redeploy quickly, to meet changing FTR Opens Up an
situations and missions.
Entirely New Region of
• Cover the “Last mile” in low-
infrastructure countries. Army Battlespace
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5. Future Transport Rotorcraft (FTR)
Future Transport Rotorcraft (FTR)
Concepts
Concepts
Future Combat
System
Transport
20-ton FCS
500+ km
FCS in FTR
Tandem Helicopter Single-Rotor Helicopter
Quad Tilt-Rotor
Tilt-Rotor / Video Clip
Variable Diameter Tilt-Rotor Compound Rotorcraft
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6. FTR ICT Schedule
FTR ICT Schedule
(Revised)
(Revised)
ICT
Mtg#1 ICT
MS0 MS1
Mtg#2
Analysis of Alternatives
Requirements Analysis
System Concept Study (TOCD)
Op Mode Summary/
Mission Profile
Activity
Army
DTLOMS Assessment ORD
ORD
MNS Develop Approval
Development ment
Future Lift Requirements Study System Threat
MNS Assessment
Mission Need Approval Report
Determination 1
st
Analysis
Draft
MNS
0 6 12 21 24 33 37 46
Aug 99 Feb 00 Aug 00 May 01 Aug 01 May 02 Sep 02 Jun03
Months
MNS = Mission Need Statement ORD = Operational Requirements Document
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7. FTR Technology Roadmap
FTR Technology Roadmap
98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
Joint Turbine Advanced Gas FTR Engine Demo
Generator III
PFRT FTR Engine EMD
TOCD FTR PDRR FTR EMD
Advanced Rotorcraft Rotorcraft Drive System
Transmission II for the 21st Century
Helicopter Active Control Advanced Cargo
Technology Handling Demo
Variable Geometry Adv Variable Geometry Advanced
Rotor Technologies Rotor Demo
Adv RotorCraft
Aeromechanics Tech
Continuing Parallel S&T
Rotary Wing Structures Survivable, Affordable, Reparable
Airframe Prog (supports FTR PDRR/EMD, adv
Technology
concepts & legacy systems)
Full Spectrum Threat
Protection
ROSA ROSA-Demo
4th Generation Cockpit
6.1 & 6.2 Supporting Aviation Science and Technology (including National Rotorcraft Technology
Center, NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Industry Initiatives)
S&T = Science & Technology TOCD = Technical & Operational Concept Development
PDRR = Preliminary Design & Risk Reduction PFRT = Pre-Flight Readiness Test
EMD = Engineering & Manufacturing Development ROSA = Rotorcraft Open System Avionics
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8. S&T Way-Ahead
S&T Way-Ahead
2002 level of technology available to support 2012 FUE
• Rotary Wing Structures Technology Demo Payoffs:
-16% Fuel
• Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission II +23% Payload/GW
• IHPTET/JTAGG II 75 tons GW
$99M
• Advanced RotorCraft Aeromechanics Technologies
2005 level of technology available to support 2015 FUE
• Survivable, Affordable, Repairable Airframe Program
Payoffs:
• Rotorcraft Drive System for the 21st Century -13% Fuel
• Variable Geometry Advanced Rotor Demo +34% Payload/GW
62 tons GW
• IHPTET/JTAGG III $74M
• Helicopter Active Control Technologies
• Rotorcraft Open Systems Avionics Demonstration
2010 level of technology available to support 2020 FUE
• FTR 15,000-shp class Engine Demo Payoffs:
• Low Cost Advanced Rotor -12% Fuel
+38% Payload/GW
• Advanced No-Swashplate Rotorhub 54 tons GW
• 4th Generation Cockpit $60M
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