The U.S. Army has successfully deployed a fixed-wing drone from a helicopter that then was able to receive video from the unmanned vehicle, proving that so-called “air-launched effects” can survive launch and the helicopter’s downwash before flying independent missions.
An Area-I air-launched, tube-integrated, unmanned system, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ, on March 4, where the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center led a demonstration that highlighted the forward air launch of the ALTIUS.(Yuma Proving Ground photo).
May 29, 2020 | Originally published by verticalmag.com, on May 18, 2020