K-MAX RoboCopter Comes Home To Uncertain Future

K-MAX RoboCopter Comes Home To Uncertain Future
K-MAX RoboCopter Comes Home To Uncertain Future

A robot helicopter that can carry three tons of cargo, the Marine Corps K-MAX certainly has the cool factor. But does it have a future? After a six-month pilot project in Afghanistan got extended into a 33-month deployment that made 2,250 tons of deliveries, the two experimental aircraft have come home. Prime contractor Lockheed Martin…