Airbus Helicopters and the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) announced on 15 May 2023 that they’d jointly tested Airbus’s VSR700 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in its operational configuration from a ship at sea. The test-flight, the platform’s first in its full operational configuration, saw the VSR700 perform no fewer than eighty fully-autonomous take-offs and landings from a helicopter-deck-equipped civil vessel operating off France’s Atlantic coast in the vicinity of Brittany.
Following delivery of the first two MQ-9A Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) procured upon the successful completion of a Company-Owned Company-Operated (COCO) Deployment Contract, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.(GA-ASI) and the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) are celebrating the 19 April 2023 delivery of the first new-build MQ-9A Extended Range (ER) UAS to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The delivery is part of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Expeditionary (MUX) Program.
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