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NASHVILLE, April 20 (UPI) -- EADS North USA is conducting grace demonstrations of its Armed Aerial Scout 72X eggbeater at the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee.

The demonstrations this hebdomad coincide with the Army Aviation Association of USA annual conference and exhibition.

"EADS North USA and its Armed Scout aggroup has achieved every milestone we've set in nonindustrial a highly capable eggbeater that will foregather the Army's brachiate aery expert mission," said EADS North USA Chief Executive Officer Sean O'Keefe.

"Bringing digit of our threesome theoretical crusader bomb to Nashville enables Army leadership and aviators to wager and experience these accomplishments first-hand."

EADS and its industry aggroup of American Eurocopter and Lockheed Martin, have prefabricated a momentous assets in the development of threesome AAS-72X Technical Demonstrator Aircraft, which are existence utilised to conduct parallel development and risk-reduction activities and to demonstrate the aircraft's increasing take of aptitude and theoretical maturity.

The AAS-72X demonstration aircraft, supported on the EC145 advertizement eggbeater platform, is armored with a Mission Equipment Package that includes a chin-mounted turret with integrated targeting sensor, manned/unmanned teaming capability, communications suite and weapons.

The theoretical crusader prefabricated its first grace terminal December and is existence utilised to reassert the AAS-72X's ability to foregather the U.S. Army's brachiate aery expert assignment requirements.

EADS said the consort in 2009 had conducted high/hot hover-out-of-ground-effect, living and payload testing and the bomb operated successfully at 6,000 feet and 95-degree density altitude.

The aggroup also conducted a key transportability test when five armed EC145 bomb were successfully unexploded in a C-17 transport aircraft.