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Airbus Eyes Replicator, Other DoD Efforts, for Flexrotor

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Airbus Eyes Replicator, Other DoD Efforts, for Flexrotor
A Flexrotor helicopter drone launches from the deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) in the Gulf of Oman, in an image released by the U.S. Navy last Oct. 6. At the time, the Navy said that U.S. 5th Fleet forces had conducted an operation integrating 12 different drones with manned ships to track Iranian Navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) ships and small boats over several days during routine patrols in and around the Strait of Hormuz (U.S. Navy Photo)

Airbus' buy of Bingen, Wash.-based Aerovel will add the Aerovel Flexrotor drone to the European defense giant's U.S. product line in what Rob Geckle, the chairman and CEO of Airbus Space and Defense, called his focus on "how we can answer those demand signals and mission gaps that are coming from DoD and its component branches." The Aerovel acquisition may boost Airbus' defense presence in the U.S., as DoD autonomous drone demand heats up (Defense Daily, May 7). The Flexrotor…

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