It's easy to imagine conventional military planes releasing swarms of drones. It's a lot harder to imagine a C-130 recovering them in midair so they can be flown again. By next February, DARPA should have in its hands two competing preliminary designs for an apparatus to do just that. Dynetics Inc of Alabama and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of California are working on competing designs under $21 million contracts awarded by DARPA earlier this year.
Wanted: "Aircraft carrier in the sky"
Aerospace America ; 55 , 5
2017
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
Wanted: Better aircraft systems
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