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iStar VTOL MAV

Country of Origin: USA

The iStar (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance) was a developmental, scalable vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) micro aerial vehicle (MAV).

It was developed as a DARPA Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (ACTD) initiative to meet the requirements for a Class II organic air vehicle in the U.S. Army's (since-cancelled) Future Combat System (FCS). Class II uncrewed aerial vehicles were to be deployed at the company level. (In 2009, the FCS program...

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