The Skylynx Unmanned Aircraft System
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May 16, 2006 As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles become ever more prevalent, the UAV roadmap is slowly evolving and the US Marine Corps is now moving to fill a gap at the Regimental level in its UAV reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition capability between the close range coverage of a Tier I system (ideal for platoon/company level) and the far-more-capable Tier III UAV systems with limited availability. Accordingly, the specs have been written for a Tier II UAV system and proposals to provide a concept demonstrator were due on May 11. To date, only one of the proposals has been made public – BAE Systems is proposing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) centered on its Skylynx platform, a system it claims to be a more versatile, mission-configurable alternative to competing systems.
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