Sea Power – The Pentagon Office of Force Transformation and the Navyís fleet readiness and logistics office are assessing a 50-year-old technology to fill one of the biggest gaps in a naval warfighting concept for the future. The heliplane, a hybrid craft with both a rotor and wings, might be a way to provide the fleet with heavy lift ìconnectorsî to rapidly move troops and materiel from ships at sea to tactical units ashore.

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