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War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
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A microdrone during a demo flight at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. More Photos »
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and THOM SHANKER
Published: June 19, 2011
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.
At War Blog: Imagining the Future of Military Gadgetry (June 19, 2011)
The base’s indoor flight lab is called the “microaviary,” and for good reason. The drones in development here are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. “We’re looking at how you hide in plain sight,” said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/refere...%20wars&st=cse
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
A microdrone during a demo flight at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. More Photos »
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and THOM SHANKER
Published: June 19, 2011
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.
At War Blog: Imagining the Future of Military Gadgetry (June 19, 2011)
The base’s indoor flight lab is called the “microaviary,” and for good reason. The drones in development here are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. “We’re looking at how you hide in plain sight,” said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/refere...%20wars&st=cse
