Whisper Aero, a U.S. start-up developing quiet electric propulsion systems, revealed a family of autonomous aircraft concepts for contested logistics missions on May 6 during the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week event held in Tampa, Florida. With funding from the U.S. Air Force, Whisper said it will spend the next four years building and flying multiple full-scale prototypes as it strives to bring the technology into service on a program of record.
Collectively dubbed Collaborative Logistics Aircraft (CLA), the concepts are designed to work in tandem to deliver critical payloads in combat zones. “Instead of one singular platform, Whisper believes that cargo missions will increasingly rely on distributed fleets of right-sized logistics UAS capable of operation from austere runways at any time of day,” the company said in a statement.
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