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Army Plans Extensive Special User Demo For Launched Effects Prototypes

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

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Army Plans Extensive Special User Demo For Launched Effects Prototypes

DAGOR vehicle launches an Air Launched Effect-Small drone at Army's EDGE21 demonstration at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Photo: Army's Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team.

The Army is planning a “special user demonstration” for its Launched Effects program, and will provide prototype capabilities to multiple formations for use over the next year to gather feedback and inform next steps. “We will actually take Launched Effects into multiple formations over the next year and leave it with them. And I’m talking [about] not only the vehicles [but also] the software, the command and control device and the payloads. So they’ll now have that for an extended…

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