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Article: Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
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- AirGuide Business
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- October 19, 2009
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Oct 18, 2009
US Army officials have identified a gap for a battalion-level unmanned aircraft system that could be addressed by platforms such as the Boeing/Insitu Scan Eagle or AAI Aerosonde. In the interim, the army is fielding a family of Wasp, Puma and Raven micro-unmanned systems - all made by Aerovironment - for platoon- and company-level operations and an extended-range version of the AAI RQ-7C Shadow for brigades. But, as their numbers grow, the army will use each of those aircraft in the short term to meet the demand at the battalion level for aerial drones that can beam streaming video, says Tim Owings, the army's deputy programme manager for UAS. The ...