Seeking Technology Available Soon To Harden Scout And Utility
Birds
The US Army has identified three survivability technologies that
it would like to incorporate in its helicopters. Survivability, in
military-aircraft terms, is the ability of the aircraft to take
hits from enemy weapons systems without any vital damage to the
aircraft and its crew. For most military technologies, like
vehicles, survivability means hardening the item with armor. But
aircraft can only carry so much armor -- which makes this field
ripe, the Pentagon thinks, for technological improvement.