K-Max Could Have Inside Track In Marine Corps' Plan For Unmanned Cargo System

The Marine Corps has decided to keep using K-Max optionally manned helicopters as part of its efforts to develop operational concepts for a potential follow-on procurement program, reports Flight International.

Test squadron VMX-22 will use two aircraft, now designated CQ-24As, to "develop concept of operations and tactics, techniques and procedures, and to help inform any program of record," according to the Naval Air Systems Command.

The helicopters are slated to move to...