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...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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