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Sunday, July 01, 2012

More Bad News for Boeing's Unmanned A160

A160T HummingbirdThen the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) releases its justification for awarding Lockheed Martin a $47 million sole-source contract to use the Kaman K-Max as a testbed for unmanned technologies.

Any reference to the A160 is heavily redacted with black ink, but it's clear the Hummingbird's accident record - including a fire on the assembly line - was a big factor.

The Army had planned to deploy three ARGUS-equipped A160s to Afghanistan this month to monitor insurgent network activity, but the service issued a stop-work order after the crash in April.

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