Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $4.6 million contract to develop maritime canister-launched small unmanned aircraft system.
Under the contract with the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), Lockheed Martin is working on a re-configurable version of its collapsible wing Vector Hawk, according to a Lockheed Martin news release.
"The Vector Hawk design is well suited to support a man-packable all-in-one solution that includes: a fixed-wing aircraft for standard and long endurance missions; a collapsible fixed-wing aircraft that can be launched from a tube from land or water; a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft; and a tilt-rotor enabling [vertical take-off and landing]VTOL with transition to forward flight," Lockheed Martin said.
