Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL

Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL
Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL

AUVSI: There’s money in the 2018 budget to develop a new sea-based, armed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone the size of the Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, Lt. Gen. Jon “Dog” Davis, says. Davis expects to see them in the inventory well before the Army-led Future Vertical Lift program produces new…