QinetiQ's Zephyr High-Altitude Long-Endurance unmanned aerial system (HALE UAS) program recently resumed flight testing and payload evaluations in Yuma, Ariz., when a joint U.S./U.K. Zephyr team undertook the first operation of the system with a U.S. flight crew. This test sequence, jointly sponsored by U.K.MoD and the U.S. Defense Department, focused on evaluating potential payloads as well as advancing the concept of operations for operating long endurance persistent aircraft longer than five days. This was the first deliverable following a…
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