Shadow replacements shine at U.S. Army's rainy drone 'rodeo'
Shadow replacements shine at U.S. Army’s rainy drone ‘rodeo’ By Dan Parsons | March 3, 2021 Estimated reading time 9 minutes, 8 seconds. One after the other, four potential replacements for the Army’s RQ-7 Shadow drone wowed soldiers and their commanders during a flight demonstration in a chilly Georgia downpour that would have grounded the legacy drone. “Hello from cold, wet, and dreary Fort Benning,” Brig. Gen. Walter Rugen, director of Future Vertical Lift at Army Futures Command, told reporters during a conference call on March 2. “Shadow could never fly in this type o...
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