Boeing Persistent Munition Technology Demonstrator

The Persistent Munition Technology Demonstrator, or PMTD, is an unmanned aerial vehicle developed and produced by the Advanced Weapons and Missile Systems division of Boeing as a test bed for developing and flight testing various UAV technologies; it has also been called the Dominator. It weighs 60 pounds, has a 12-foot wingspan and is powered by a single piston engine driving a pusher propeller. It first flew in April 2006 at Vandalia Municipal Airport in Illinois. Designed for air or ground launch and long loiter times, it can operate completely autonomously: on its maiden flight it flew itself to 14 programmed locations, changed altitude four times and met all programmed speeds. EDO Corporation funded development of its composite airframe while Boeing funded all the flight tests. Just-in-Time Strike Augmentation is a US Air Force proposal to launch large numbers of PMTDs from a C-17 Globemaster III.