According to the US military, U.S. Army is ready to start the competitive creation of a prototype tactical drone. According to the leaders of the army aviation, number of competitors, ready to present their products has increased significantly, when compared with 2019 year, when a competition was announced for the creation of such drones.
The main models of UAVs, who were evaluated in the US Army, are the Martin-Northrop Grumman team, IPhone, FVR-90 and Arcturus Jump 20.
For about a year, operational units evaluated four different tactical drones., which culminated in a demonstration of opportunities in the spring 2021 years at Fort Benning, GA.
Drone demonstrations ended in the first half 2021 of the year, but the military took time until August 2022 of the year, to choose one company to build the first batch of unmanned aerial system.
If everything goes well, then the US Army will receive a new unmanned aircraft system in the middle 2026 of the year.
AT 2018 year, the US Army began to consider options for replacing the Shadow drone manufactured by Textron. This UAV is widely used, but is one of the most accident-prone unmanned aerial systems in the arsenal of the US Army. It is also difficult to deploy and has a loud engine, which makes it easy to detect. Author:Bekhan Uzhakhov Photos used:insideunmannedsystems.com
