MIT Develops Mach 0.8 Rocket Mini-Drone

Credit: MIT
The partnership that produced the Pentagon’s Perdix swarming drone is on to its next challenge: developing a small unmanned aircraft, called Firefly, that can be launched from a tactical aircraft to fly at Mach 0.8. Perdix is one result of the Beaver Works research collaboration between the...
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