Boeing LMAV (Light Aerial Multipurpose Vehicle)

[flateric]

Boeing LAMV information sheet

[Kim Margosein]

I love it.  You see it in all the brochures from the C-119 to the present.  What is the fixation with the USAF on landing fixed wing aircraft on the battlefield?  There is some mortar operator just waiting put a $50million hole in the USAF's budget.

Kim M

[yasotay]

Other than the AFSOC bubba's who do heroic work supporting the Special Operations Forces the USAF does not land their aircraft on anything other than pristine runways, much to the irritation of their customers.  As far as mortarmen having a great shot, long runways with well known locations are far more predictable than a spot in a field. Then I have been working on this sort of thing for the last several years.

The technology being worked by Boeing is a Pulse Injector type similar to that of the old German WW2 V-1.

[hesham]

From Flightglobal;
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2003/2003%20-%202527.html