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Balancing Lethality And Endurance A Challenge, Army UAS Official Says

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Thursday, September 8th, 2011

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The success of the armed Predator unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has led to discussions of arming some of the Army's systems, but that presents a challenge, a program official said. The real issue when considering lethality is that "the "weight of current munitions really is an endurance killer even on the large platforms," said Timothy Owings, deputy project manager unmanned aircraft systems within Program Executive Office-Aviation. "When you carry Hellfires on Gray Eagle (UAS) you lose significant endurance." At least…

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