The Marine Corps deployment of the K-MAX unmanned helicopter for carrying cargo in Afghanistan will be extended by a few months through the end of the fiscal year, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) said yesterday. The two Lockheed Martin [LMT] K-MAX systems were developed under an urgent requirement issued by the Navy and sent to Afghanistan in November. They began operations the following month and were planned for a six-month deployment that would have ended in June. Now the two…
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