This New Video Showing DARPA's Master Plan For Its Gremlins Drones Is Awesome
Semi-autonomous drone swarms that launch and recover from flying motherships are becoming a reality and that should terrify America's enemies.
By Tyler RogowayMay 11, 2018
Just last April, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected its team for the final phase of its reusable air-launched and recovered Gremlins drone program. Now DARPA is laying out exactly how the final concept will work and what it aims to prove with flight testing in an awesome new explainer video complete with high-end animation of the final Gremlins configuration in action.
The $32M contract will support the program and its flight testing between 2018 and 2020, after which time DARPA sees the concept moving into an operational state. The team that won the tender is led by Dynetics, with Williams International, Moog, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Systems Engineering, Inc., and its previous competitor for the contract, Kratos, acting as subcontractors on the program.
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