It required two controllers, one flight-deck controller for managing take-off and landing and an operator in the CIC to fly the DASH to the target and release weapons. Powered by a small turboshaft engine and featuring twin vertical rotor blades the aircraft could carry out its intended role, although not a very reliable platform and was difficult to pilot. Built by the Gyrodyne Corporation, the DSN-3 could carry two Mk 44 homing torpedoes. As far back as the 1950s, the US Navy developed the Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (DASH). It would be inaccurate to describe the delivery of a torpedo by a UAS as something entirely new. Here we look at the background and the future potential of delivering anti-submarine torpedos by uncrewed aerial systems. In the recent REPMUS exercise held in Portugal, a BAE Systems / Malloy Aeronautics T-600 UAS was used to launch an inert training variant Sting Ray torpedo.
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