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Army To Select Successful Air Launched Effects Prototypes By End Of 2021

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Army To Select Successful Air Launched Effects Prototypes By End Of 2021
An Area-I Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., March 4 where the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center led a demonstration that highlighted the forward air launch of the ALTIUS. (Courtesy photo provided by Yuma Proving Ground)

The Army will select by the end of 2021 which prototypes will move forward from its new program to develop Air Launched Effects (ALE) for its future helicopter fleet, the program office told Defense Daily. Formal testing for the air vehicles, mission systems and payloads developed under the ALE program is scheduled to take place in the first three months and last three months of the project.  “A decision to take prototype solutions forward for system and host platform integration…

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