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DARPA ANCILLARY X-Plane

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Autonomous VTOL aircraft demonstrators for DARPA's AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY (ANCILLARY) X-plane program. Long endurance UAS to be capable of operating from a moving ship, and capable of carrying a large 60-pound sensor payload. In development.

Lift type
Autogyro
Construction
Factory-built
Control
Autonomous
Engine type
Application
Cargo, Surveillance

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Type variants

VariantLaunch / first flightProduction endNotes
Sikorsky Innovations RBW2023 / 2024Scalable twin proprotor Rotor Blown Wing (RBW) variant.
Northrop Grumman ANCILLARY2023 / Quadripod variant with mission radius range of 100 nautical miles.
AeroVironment Wildcat2023 / Tail-sitter variant with mission radius range of 450 nautical miles.

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