The Weekly Debrief: AFRL Revives Dormant, Air-launched Micro-drone Concept

The U.S. Navy demonstrated a ground-launched Perdix micro-drone for 60 Minutes cameras in 2016.
Credit: USN
A seemingly abandoned idea to air launch tiny, swarming drones from fast-moving jets appears to be back on the U.S. Air Force’s research agenda. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate on July 18 published a request for information (RFI) for a “small unmanned aircraft...

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