“We don't want to do all the development, we want to do the procurement. We want to buy it for the long term, so that that's where we're going back to the manufacturers and having negotiations about, how do we best position the development so that it's not all on the government," Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, PAE of Maneuver Air, said.
“We don’t have those organic to the Army. So I think we need to solve our own problems, and think about how do we do our own, let’s call it logistical resupply in the air, of an MV-75,” Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, PAE of Maneuver Air, said.
The Army is looking for a launched effect capability that can potentially travel up to 1,000 km, with a demo planned later this year.
In the past year, the Army has divested nearly 60 percent of its Apache D models, Col. Tim Jaeger, director of Army aviation at the G3/5/7, said.
"It's going to happen when it's going to happen," Maj. Gen. Clair Gill told reporters when asked about expected timeline milestones for the new aircraft.
The first product in the MAYHEM line is dubbed MAYHEM 10, a launched effect system with a 10lb payload.
After the president’s FY27 budget request zeroed out funding for the new engine, GE said more money is needed to finish qualification testing.