The American Dynamics Flight Systems
AD-150 is a tilt-duct unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been
developed around upcoming US Marine Corps requirements for a high-speed
VTOL UAV capable of operating in a shipboard maritime environment. The
aircraft uses a pair of rotating wing tip-mounted ducted fans to provide
the vertical lift and forward thrust needed to approach 300kts.
Potential missions include intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance,
and targeting (ISR&T), electronic attack (EA), logistical resupply,
and weapons delivery. American Dynamics Flight Systems (ADFS) had
partnered with the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of
Maryland to perform wind tunnel testing (Barlow) and develop a 6-DOF
flight dynamics model (Humbert) for the expected flight envelope of the
AD-150.