Gremlins Miss Docking With C-130 In Nine Attempts: DARPA

Credit: DARPA
Three flights and nine docking attempts this fall failed to yield a successful inflight capture of a Dynetics/Kratos X-61A Gremlin by a Lockheed Martin C-130, DARPA said on Dec. 10. The motion of each X-61A in relation to the capture mechanism during each attempt proved larger than the designers...

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