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U.S. Army Buys Thousands Of Drones, UAS Momentum Picks Up

The U.S. Army within a few days in mid-March ordered thousands of reconnaissance drones as part of the service’s push to quickly field large numbers of relatively affordable systems for its formations.

On March 20, the Army announced two contracts to AeroVironment for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), both expected to be fully fielded within months. First is a $117 million order for AV’s P550 Long Range Reconnaissance systems, Group 2 UAS that will provide battalion commanders with their own reconnaissance and target acquisition capabilities.

The order came through the Army’s new UAS Marketplace Basic Ordering Agreement—a new portal for the military to quickly order cleared systems. This order is expected to be completed in July.
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Just a simple remark: if you are gonna manually fly something that will essentially climb vertically most of the time, you would better offset your artificial horizon indicator to your ideal coasting slope angle to prevent the annoying large amplitude change in the display... For example, if that angle is 90 degree, your display is stable from 45 to 135 with rotation occurring only during pullup and push down way out the range of value in stabilized flight.
 

AV to Deliver ISR Services to U.S. Navy with JUMP 20-X​

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AV to Deliver ISR Services to U.S. Navy with JUMP 20-X - Naval News

AV has been selected to deliver JUMP 20-X to the U.S. Navy in support of its initiative to modernize and expand ISR operations.
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AV’s JUMP 20-X Group 3 vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) will equip the Navy with expanded ISR capabilities tailored to support diverse land and maritime missions. The platform enables multi-domain missions with fully autonomous, hands-free operation and more than 13 hours of flight time, a 115-mile (185 km) range, and 30 pounds of payload capacity.
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Those old early model F-15s and F-16s could be converted into attributable CCAs.
 
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How America’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Suddenly Became An “Indispensable” Weapon Of War
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How many 'LUCAS' drones or other similar US systems (made by other OEMs also producing Shahed clones) were used in Epic Fury? How were they launched and what targets did they actually strike? If they were laucnhed from a single LCS how many were stored in it and how was the ship replenished? How badly degraded the US and Israeli munitions stockpiles have to be if Epic Fury was impossible to do without Lucas?
 
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How many 'LUCAS' drones or other similar US systems (made by other OEMs also producing Shahed clones) were used in Epic Fury? How were they launched and what targets did they actually strike? If they were laucnhed from a single LCS how many were stored in it and how was the ship replenished? How badly degraded the US and Israeli munitions stockpiles have to be if Epic Fury was impossible to do without Lucas?
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Centcom commander says ‘hundreds’ of U.S. drones are involved in Iran war

The American military launched more one-way attack drones against Iran during Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday.
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AFCENT to Spend up to $270 Million on Ultra-Long Range ISR Drones​

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AFCENT Awards Big Contract for Ultra-Long Range ISR Drones

U.S. Air Forces Central has awarded a $270 million contract to a California-based company to provide an ultra-long range, solar-powered drone
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Super-Adaptable Mayhem 10 Swarming Drone Evolved From The Switchblade​

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Super-Adaptable Mayhem 10 Swarming Drone Evolved From The Switchblade

AeroVironment's Mayhem 10 is highly-modular and can seek and destroy enemy radars, jam comms, reconnoiter, strike armor and more. The company bets on modularity and swarming with Mayhem 10, a rapidly deployable system that builds on its proven Switchblade.
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