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Aerosonde UAS Starts Flying Off LCS

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

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Aerosonde UAS Starts Flying Off LCS

An Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operating off of a U.S. Navy vessel. (Photo: Naval Air Systems Command)

Textron's [TXT] small Aerosonde Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) flew off a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the first time, the company announced Monday. This operation is the start of Textron fulfilling a June 2023 contract to provide UAS support to one Freedom-variant and two Independence-variant LCSs for the Navy. This UAS took off from the USS Savannah (LCS-28), which is based in San Diego, Calif. Textron noted with the start of operations off LCS-28, the Aerosonde has now been contracted…

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