The
Navy Seahawk MARS program described on page 6 was one of my
programs while I was the DoD/USN Unmanned Aerial Vehicle PM. The BQM-145
Medium-Range UAV was a joint Navy/USAF program planned as
the largest user of the USAF ATARS Program. The BQM-145 was to be
launched from USN F/A-18 for Intelligence,
Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (IRST)
missions, then MARS recovered by Navy H-60 aircraft,
including at night and during IFR conditions. The program was
cancelled on my recommendation once the analyses indicated
the recovery rate would be low, partially because the
recovery would likely be over hostile territory. Adding a warhead was
considered, but the F-18 community was against any
unmanned concept in the late 1980s. IMO, this was a good
exercise in rapidly demonstrating a mid-air retrieval of a
BQM-145 weighted shape. John
Olmstead
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Searching through wiki and look what I
found beside lots of stuff under Mid-Air retrieval Systems
A few pages of Sikorsky historcal
news.....
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