Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL
By Richard Whittle on October 26, 2016 at 4:14 PM
Karem-VTOL-X-Plane-Concept-TR36XP - source Karem
AUVSI: There’s money in the 2018 budget to develop a new sea-based, armed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone the size of the Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, Lt. Gen. Jon “Dog” Davis, says. Davis expects to see them in the inventory well before the Army-led Future Vertical Lift program produces new manned VTOLs.
“It’s not outside the realm of possibility we will have technology demonstrators next year,” Davis told the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International defense conference on Wednesday.
http://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/davis-marines-want-vtol-drone-before-fvl/
