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AAI Corp. Works Improvements For Shadow TUAS

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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

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FORT WORTH, Texas--AAI Corp. [TXT] is moving quickly to retrofit improvements on their Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (TUAS), a company official said. Reliability improvements, a re-winging effort and fitting a laser designator for the fleet are all part of the work, Russ Walker, division vice president TUAS at AAI Corp., told sister publication Defense Daily at the Army Aviation Association of America annual conference here. For example, a laser designator is being fielded, the first units have been trained,…

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