Air Force Could Test "Flying Aircraft Carriers" as Early as Next Year
Next step: Building stealthy motherships.
Rich Smith
Jan 1, 2018 at 7:03AM
The movies were right: Gremlins are real.
Or at least they will be if DARPA -- the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- has anything to say about it. As we learned this week from our friends at the Navy Times, DARPA is moving ahead on its effort to create a fleet of flying aircraft carriers, which it calls the "Gremlins" program, with demonstration flights scheduled to begin sometime next year.
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