Pentagon Pursues a Carrier-Free Unmanned Strike Aircraft for the Navy
The U.S. Navy's carrier aviation community abandoned early efforts towards an unmanned fighter aircraft in the late 2010s and has yet to formally revive the concept in program form - and in a strange twist, it could be eclipsed in this field by non-aviators. The Defense Innovation Unit - housed outside of the Navy - is beginning to award contracts for the development of experimental airframes for its Runway Independent Maritime & Expeditionary Strike (RIMES) aircraft, a long-range UAV that...
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