AT 2019 year marks 10 years since the beginning of research in the framework of the program to create a cargo drone helicopter type.
We are talking about the Transformer program from DARPA, which consisted in the creation of unmanned different duty to perform various kinds of logistics missions. It is the mission of the fuel delivery, food, ammunition and other payloads in a military operation. armored truck box may be used to implement the mission.
The beginning of works was associated with the solution of the problem by reducing the risk of ground transportation, when trucks could run into an explosive device in the front line, get caught up in difficult ground. The program also aimed at creating a UAV, which could replace the helicopters due to the high cost of their use, and because of the need to reduce to zero the risk of loss of crew.
As a result, work is being done Skunk Works of Lockheed Martin teams with Piasecki Aircraft. Specialists of these groups developed cargo drones vertical take-off and landing under the program, dubbed ARES VTOL. At the same ARES VTOL – platform, which could become a de facto part of a land vehicle for the purpose of lifting up into the air.
A project twin screw drone, which may be in the hovering mode and sufficient velocity filter. Rings, acting as the protection of the screws, can rotate in a vertical plane.
The possibility of its use not only as a deliverer of goods from military base to the place of the military operation, but also as a transporter, eg, Wounded soldiers from the place of engagement (evacuation mission CASEVAC).
Developers do not want to leave the US and the possibility of using this as a drone reconnaissance means.
