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Marines Want Shipboard VTOL Drone For $20 Million A Copy

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Marines Want Shipboard VTOL Drone For $20 Million A Copy
Artist’s rendering of Bell Helicopter’s V-247 Group 5 UAV. Photo: Bell Helicopter.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Currently the only U.S. military service without a high-end unmanned aircraft, the U.S. Marine Corps is in the market for a high-altitude long-endurance drone that can launch from a ship, perform reconnaissance and relay communication to deployed ground forces for about $20 million per copy.Other missions for what the Marine Corps calls MUX – a mercifully short acronym for Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Experimental – will include airborne early warning and…

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