Army Will Cut Future Combat System's Class II and Class III UAVs

By Ashley Roque / December 12, 2006 at 5:00 AM
The Army will pare down the number of unmanned aerial vehicles under the Future Combat System umbrella, leaving the program with only the development of the smallest and largest aircraft, according to Brig. Gen. Stephen Mundt, the Army Aviation Task Force director. Recommended changes to the program, contained in the Training and Doctrine Command's UAV Mix Analysis, have been provided to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker and he "is happy with the work," Mundt told Inside the Army...

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