AgilePod could see combat in two years following MQ-9, high-altitude demos

By Rachel Cohen / October 16, 2018 at 3:03 PM
New efforts to mature the Air Force's AgilePod on a range of legacy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft could make the modular sensor carriage combat-ready within the next two years. AgilePod allows crews to quickly add and change out airborne sensors, bomb racks and common launch tubes to fit different missions. So far, AgilePod has flown on General Atomics' MQ-9 Reaper, Textron's Scorpion light-attack aircraft and the Douglas DC-3 cargo plane. Air Force researchers want to expand that portfolio to...

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