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Army

Army Needs Smarter Drones To Replace Legacy Platforms

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

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Army Needs Smarter Drones To Replace Legacy Platforms

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AUSTIN, Texas - The Army wants new tactical unmanned aerial vehicles that would eventually replace the drones the service now flies, including the General Atomics Gray Eagle and Shadow aircraft.Unmanned aerial systems need a greater degree of autonomy and should perform more missions than they currently do, said. Jeffrey Singleton, the service’s director of technology, at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Science and Engineering Technology conference in Austin, Texas.Swarming drones appears to be the future of unmanned platforms, whether on…

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