Unmanned aircraft soar with new capabilities for Apache

The Program Executive Office for Aviation has once again pushed the envelope of technology for its family of unmanned aircraft systems.

Gray Eagle and Shadow UAS – both popular with Soldiers for the reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities they bring to the battlefield – have proven themselves up to the challenge in a series of manned-unmanned teaming tests with the Army’s newest Apache, the AH-64 “E” model, and the One System Remote Video Terminal during the past two months at both Redstone Arsenal and El Mirage Flight Test Facility in California.

The successful tests took the two unmanned aircraft systems into the realm of true interoperability between multiple Army aviation systems.

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