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Northrop Grumman Unveils DARPA Shipboard Drone Concept for Navy Tactical Missions

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Northrop Grumman Unveils DARPA Shipboard Drone Concept for Navy Tactical Missions
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman for designing an autonomous VTOL aircraft system. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has unveiled the design of the new autonomous uncrewed vertical take-off and landing aircraft capable of operating from Navy ships at sea that it will build under a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office. The as-yet unbuilt aircraft has been given a typically terrible Defense Department acronym: ANCILLARY, which stands for AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY. The Northrop Grumman-built demonstrator should be a cost-efficient, multiple-mission capable vehicle built on an…

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