Army aviation to ditch single engine helos, add UAVs to scout order of battle

Army aviation restructuring moves forward - 11/25/2014 - Flight Global

The US Army has started executing a plan that will lead to a historic reshaping and downsizing of a war-weary aviation branch as it attempts to both upgrade its capabilities and cut more than $12 billion in spending over the next five years.
The aviation restructuring initiative (ARI) unveiled earlier this year is ambitious. Not since the cancellation of the Sikorsky/Boeing RAH-66 Comanche in 2004 has the army proposed as much change for the aviation branch.The ARI proposes to divest all of army aviation’s more than 800 single-engined helicopters.

Cut	Replacement
Bell Helicopter OH-58D Kiowa Warriors, used as armed scouts US Army Plans To Scrap Kiowa Helo Fleet | Defense News | defensenews.com	AH-64D/Es, team up with AAI Corp RQ-7B Shadows and  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Gray Eagles to perform the armed scout role.
OH-58A/Cs advanced trainers.	none
The TH-67 Creek primary trainer – the military designations for the Bell 206 JetRanger – will be sold as surplus equipment	more than 100 already delivered LUH-72As
National Guard transfer Boeing AH-64 Apaches to active Army,	National Guard receive active army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks in return. acquire 100 more Airbus Helicopters LUH-72A Lakotas