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Textron Fury Conducts Live Fire Demonstrations

Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

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Textron Fury Conducts Live Fire Demonstrations

Textron Fury

Textron [TXT] recently demonstrated its new Fury weapon system, designed to provide a precision strike capability for the Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle, other small UAVs and even manned helicopters and jets. A pair of successful live-fire demonstrations last month at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona showed Marine Corps and Army observers that weaponizing the Shadow M2 UAV is not only possible without hindering the UAV’s performance, but could also be manufactured and introduced to the fleet in short order, Christian…

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