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Gun-Armed, Close-Support Missiles Among DARPA’s New Projects

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As an agency chartered with both preventing and creating surprises, DARPA is guaranteed to raise an eyebrow with its annual budget requests. Past ideas floated by the Pentagon’s advanced research projects agency have ranged from flying submarines to satellites that assemble themselves on orbit. And...
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