Navy readies swarming micro-drones for covert surveillance
April 19, 2017
WASHINGTON – Swarming drones serving as nodes in self-configuring sensor networks are being miniaturized to the point where individual autonomous craft amount to little more than flying circuit boards with a vertical stabilizer attached to a 3-D printed fuselage. Defense Systems reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
19 April 2017 -- The U.S. Navy continues to push the state of the art, scaling individual swarming drones down to a palm-size craft called the Close-in Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft, or CICADA. The mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under development at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), weighs in at just under 2.3 ounces.
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