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Textron to Deliver Aerosonde HQ Drones to Army for FTUAS Testing

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, June 20th, 2019

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Textron to Deliver Aerosonde HQ Drones to Army for FTUAS Testing

Textron's Aerosonde HQ small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) (Textron Photo)

PARIS AIR SHOW--In the coming months, Textron Systems [TXT] is to deliver its Aerosonde HQ vertical take-off and landing drone to the U.S. Army as part of the service's Brigade Combat Team evaluation, the first phase of the Army's Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System program, and company officials believe that Aerosonde's 350,000 flight hours and the 1.5 million flight hours of the Textron subsidiary AAI Corp.'s RQ-7 Shadow drone bode well for international sales of both systems. "We have a…

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