Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems recently announced a pair of successful live-fire demonstrations of its new FURY lightweight precision guided glide weapon off of a SHADOW Tactical UAS at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
The combined Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems and Unmanned Systems team dropped FURY from a SHADOW 200, engaging and detonating on the target. This marked the first live drop of the FURY and the first live weapon drop from the Unmanned Systems SHADOW 200 aircraft configuration. The Textron Systems team, along with partner Thales UK, achieved this milestone within 15 months of initiating work on the small, lightweight weapon system.
"Our team is focused on quickly bringing new and affordable capability to the warfighter," explained Weapon & Sensor Systems Senior Vice President and General Manager Ian Walsh. "Based on an understanding of our customers' needs, we demonstrated -- in a short period of time -- FURY's full TRL 7 capability in a realistic environment. Not only is the weapon simple to use, accurate and attractively priced, it is an ideal complement to the trusted Shadow platform as well as other UAS or light attack aircraft. We have also proven that the lightweight weapon and carriage system creates very little drag, resulting in minimal operational impact to aircraft performance and endurance."
The combined Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems and Unmanned Systems team dropped FURY from a SHADOW 200, engaging and detonating on the target. This marked the first live drop of the FURY and the first live weapon drop from the Unmanned Systems SHADOW 200 aircraft configuration. The Textron Systems team, along with partner Thales UK, achieved this milestone within 15 months of initiating work on the small, lightweight weapon system.
"Our team is focused on quickly bringing new and affordable capability to the warfighter," explained Weapon & Sensor Systems Senior Vice President and General Manager Ian Walsh. "Based on an understanding of our customers' needs, we demonstrated -- in a short period of time -- FURY's full TRL 7 capability in a realistic environment. Not only is the weapon simple to use, accurate and attractively priced, it is an ideal complement to the trusted Shadow platform as well as other UAS or light attack aircraft. We have also proven that the lightweight weapon and carriage system creates very little drag, resulting in minimal operational impact to aircraft performance and endurance."
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| Textron FURY lightweight precision guided glide weapon. (Photo: Textron) |