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Unmanned Systems 2018: US Army looking to accelerate FVL

8th February 2018 - 11:06 GMT | by Ashley Roque in Washington DC

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US Army leaders are examining ways to speed up the development and fielding for their Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programme by several years. Funding to do so, however, will not be included in the forthcoming FY2019 budget request.

The service’s FVL, billed as the army’s next-generation aircraft and potentially designed for both manned and unmanned operations, is expected to enter the fleet in the 2030s. In the coming days, the release of the FY18 budget request along with a five-year spending plan is expected to shed some light on funding levels for key modernisation programmes like FVL.

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Ashley Roque joined Shephard Media in January 2018 as its North American Editor, based in …

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