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World is now entering a new era where autonomous technologies extend and connect human capabilities across all domains at a small incremental cost. The future wars will be in a greatly contested environment and thus the need for MUM-T

The Army is replacing the Shadow in its infantry brigades, but Textron is upgrading as the company expects other Army groups, like aviation and special ops, to use it for more than a decade longer.

Textron Systems has commenced training for US Army personnel on the use of its advanced Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS).

By Garrett Reim2021-02-04T01:35:00+00:00 The US Army says it has conducted manned-unmanned teaming between the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and two different unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). An AH-64E, a Textron Shadow RQ-7BV2 Block 3 tactical UAV and a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range UAV successfully worked together to carry out an air-to-ground missile attack at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah last October, the service says. Source: US Army US Army AH-...