The Army must rethink its future airlift concept for transporting Future Combat System vehicles because the plan is too expensive, risky and difficult, according to the Pentagon's Defense Science Board. A DSB task force found numerous obstacles when it examined the Army's "mounted aerial maneuver" concept for using new vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft to support distributed ground combat and FCS vehicles. "To meet the requirements as this concept is currently envisioned, the resulting aircraft will be very expensive, technically risky, and...
