The Mission Adaptive Rotor (MAR) program seeks to dramatically improve system performance, operational availability, sustainability, and survivability of rotorcraft, including reduction in acoustic susceptibility and rotor vibration while increasing useful payload fraction and range.
The Mission Adaptive Rotor (MAR) program seeks to dramatically improve system performance, operational availability, sustainability, and survivability of rotorcraft, including reduction in acoustic susceptibility and rotor vibration while increasing useful payload fraction and range. The goal is to develop and demonstrate the capability to achieve these improvements through the use of technologies that enable adaptation of the rotor throughout military missions and/or mission segments. The program will investigate various methods to achieve these gains including actively morphing the shape or properties of the rotor system; and using active rotors with on-blade control in order to eliminate the need for a rotor swashplate.