Air Warfare
DARPA lines up LongShot
DARPA on 8 February awarded three companies preliminary Phase I design contracts on its LongShot programme.
General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman will each work on developing an air-launched UAV capable of employing multiple air-to-air weapons.
LongShot aims to result in a new type of UAV that can ‘significantly extend ...
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