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March 9, 2016 06:00 pm
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Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms
schwit1 writes: High over Alaska last summer, the Pentagon experimented with new, secret prototypes: Micro-drones that can be launched from the flare dispensers of moving F-16s and F/A-18 fighter jets. Canisters containing the tiny aircraft descended from the jets on parachutes before breaking open, allowing wings on each drone to swing out and catch the wind. Inch-wide propellers on the back provided propulsion as they found one another and created a swarm.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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