Marines Dial Back UAS Strategy

March 19, 2020
missile concept
DARPA and the Office of Naval Research collaborated on the Tern project that allows small ships the ability to serve as mobile launch-and-recovery sites for medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft systems.
Credit: DARPA Rendering
The U.S. Marine Corps is drastically changing course in its effort to develop a large unmanned aircraft for vertical takeoff from amphibious ships. Instead of a single large, expensive air vehicle that can do everything, the service plans to buy smaller unmanned systems for specific missions. The...

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