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Air Force: Agility Prime Platforms Will Be ‘Gamechanger’ for Warfighter

Air Force: Agility Prime Platforms Will Be ‘Gamechanger’ for Warfighter
A slide from the Air Force's Agility Prime virtual event April 27, 2020, providing examples of the types of aircraft the service is looking for in their new effort. (Image: Air Force)

A new electronically powered aircraft that can rapidly transport logistics and personnel across battlefields or through disaster zones will benefit the Air Force across a wide range of capability needs, service officials said April 27. As the service virtually kicked off its new Agility Prime program to field such a platform, its leaders emphasized how crucial a commercially developed electronic vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) platform would be for future missions. Air Mobility Command’s mission is expanding, and its forces need to ensure…

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