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Thursday, January 20, 2011

US Army outlines VTOL UAV needs

A160T HummingbirdIn the same January speech in which US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates listed Pentagon programmes to be cut in an attempt to save hundreds of billions of dollars, several ambitious new efforts were also mentioned, including the US Army's vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle programme.

Although endorsed by Gates, the army's VTOL UAV requirements are still a glimmer in the Pentagon's eye.

"There isn't a requirements document at this time," says Col Bill Morris, director of army aviation in the office of the deputy chief of staff. "There are a lot of concepts."

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