Flying Cars May Replace the V-22 Osprey 

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The United States Air Force has scheduled plans to begin working on Agility Prime, the military’s effort to develop flying cars and ultimately replace the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The Air Force plans to develop the flying car based off the research the commercial industry has put into flying cars.

Military officials believe it will be an easy opportunity to research flying cars due to the amount of research and development already put into the concept by the commercial industry.

According to Defenseone.com, the United States military has been playing around with the idea of flying cars since 2016. At the time the effort was to develop an ultra-silent flying car that Special Operation Forces can use behind enemy lines.

However that effort hasn’t advanced much. The Special Operation Forces community simply did not have enough confidence in autonomous vehicles at the time.

Today, with the Agility Prime program, officials believe that there has been enough work done in the commercial market for flying cars that military officials believe that, at the least, it is worth to check what existing opportunities are feasible for military use. Existing flying car prototypes and concepts may not be able to do the same missions as the V-22 Osprey, but they can definitely benefit the military, both operationally and logistically.

There is no exact word on how the final product will look. The idea so far is to have a flying car, whether it be for transporting relatively lightweight supplies or moving and reloading aircraft with heavier weapons.

Every flight hour on any one aircraft costs the Air Force and the United States government as a whole thousands of dollars, not to mention the expenses of maintenance and purchasing the aircraft. Agility Prime offers a great opportunity for commercial investment in the military, mutually benefiting both parties.