AeroVironment’s Wildcat reaches key milestones in EVADE demonstration

The company states: “AeroVironment (AVAV) announced that its Wildcat uncrewed aircraft system has achieved a series of development milestones in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s, DARPA, Early VTOL Aircraft Demonstration. Wildcat has successfully completed VTOL-to-forward-flight transitions, validated its core flight and propulsion systems, and begun integrating critical mission payloads-demonstrating rapid progress toward an operationally relevant capability. Wildcat is a Group 3, tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing aircraft designed for launch and recovery from ship decks in denied and distributed maritime environments. Its compact footprint, autonomous launch and recovery, and robust flight performance across high sea states make it a flexible and scalable solution for contested littoral operations.”