The Skylynx Unmanned Aircraft System

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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