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Open Architecture Future Vertical Lift Family Will Include Advanced UAS

Monday, April 2nd, 2018

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Open Architecture Future Vertical Lift Family Will Include Advanced UAS

A pilot from of 1st Squadron, 229th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., flies the new AH-64E Apache Longbow Photo: U.S. Army

Aside from developing a revolutionary new family of rotorcraft, the Army’s ongoing Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program includes building a next-generation unmanned aerial system that will fly in formation with those future helicopters, operate autonomously or swarm enemy air defenses.FVL seeks a family of rotorcraft that eventually will replace legacy helicopters with new designs that can fly farther and faster than the current AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook platforms. Legacy MQ-1 Gray Eagles and RQ-7 Shadow drones…

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