Replacing the Shadow drone could be ‘quick win’ for the US Army

Defense News: The U.S. Army will ultimately replace all of its unmanned aircraft systems with new ones to meet the missions it envisions carrying out in the future, but the service’s current Textron-made Shadow system may be the first to be unseated by a new UAS.

As the service rapidly moves on a number of projects to modernize the force for both asymmetric warfare and peer-on-peer fights, one of its priorities is to bring a family of future vertical lift aircraft into the fleet as well as UAS that will be teamed with the manned platforms.

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