The Navy's catapult-launched ScanEagle drones can see beyond the horizon, but they're too small to carry Hellfire missiles or guided bombs. The unmanned Fire Scout helicopters need only a small deck for takeoffs and landings, but generating lift solely with rotors means burning fuel faster than a fixed-wing plane would. Here, Canady looks at plans for a demonstrator that could solve this DARPA-hard problem.
Game changer
Aerospace America ; 55 , 6
2017
Article (Journal)
English
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