Transport committee  No, but typically if a railway is built or you have a highway, then your transportation costs are minimal. Where it starts to make more sense is when you look at regions that don't have that infrastructure. So if you have to factor in the cost of $4 billion to install a railway s

Transport committee  Lockheed Martin has a competing product, and Lockheed Martin bid against Northrop Grumman for the U.S. military's long-endurance, multi-intelligence vehicle program. It's a U.S. Army program. Northrop Grumman won that competition, but the manufacturer of the air vehicle is Hybri

Transport committee  No, they're not operating. When this surveillance version for the U.S. Army flies, it will be the first flight of this model.

Transport committee  There will be a requirement for infrastructure for sure, just like you need airports to operate airplanes. At some point, you will need to put these vehicles in some facility for annual maintenance. The intention is for these things to operate in the field without the requiremen

Transport committee  It can land either vertically or like a conventional aircraft, and it requires about three to four times its length. If it's 100 metres long, it's going to need about 1000 feet to get airborne, fully loaded. The beauty of it is that you don't need a runway. You could literally la