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Lockheed Martin Readies ARES UAS For Flight Demo At Yuma Proving Ground

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, September 26th, 2018

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] is readying the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) for a flight demonstration this fall, possibly as early as Oct. 16.The company's Skunk Works is teamed with Piasecki Aircraft Corp. and Sierra Nevada Corp. on a design that includes twin tilting wing-mounted ducted fans providing vertical lift and then transitioning to deliver forward thrust."It's been going very well in testing with the Marines at Yuma," Bob Allison, Lockheed Martin's director of business development for Advanced Mobility Advanced Development…

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