DARPA Picks Nine Firms To Design Long-Endurance VTOL UAS

Griffon’s Valiant hybrid-electric VTOL uncrewed aircraft has been flown under a U.S. Army rapid prototyping effort.

Credit: David Hylton, U.S. Army
DARPA has selected nine companies for the initial six-month conceptual design phase of a program to develop an X-plane for a long-endurance vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) able to operate without bulky launch and recovery equipment. AeroVironment, AVX Aircraft...

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