Message posted by aaron Johnson on June 20, 2003 at 15:39:06 PST:
Developers of a unique ‘folding wing’ UAV say a test model will be drop tested from an Army Black Hawk helicopter soon. The UAV - called LEWK (for loitering electronic warfare killer) uses compressed air to inflate a semi-rigid wing (and tail) structure which is folded on top of the missile shaped body. ‘The concept is to treat the UAV as a bomb. The services all understand bombs. They’re easily stored and handled,’ says Marty Meyer, head of the project. Once deployed, a LEWK is designed to carry payloads into combat - including small but powerful jammers designed to blanket enemy air defences. Meyer says the effort - a Government ACTD (advanced concept technology
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