Drones can
drop supplies to hidden Special Forces or essential medical kit in
warzones, but there’s the risk that their presence may give away the
recipient’s location, or that the technology ends up in enemy hands.
To solve this problem, the Pentagon is calling for designs for ‘vampire’ drones that disappear in daylight.
The
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is funding a new
project to develop aircraft that can ‘fully vanish within four hours of
payload delivery or within 30 minutes of morning civil twilight
(assuming a night drop), whichever is earlier’.
The Pentagon is calling for designs
for ‘vampire’ drones that disappear in daylight. A stock illustration of
a drone is shown. Darpa is funding a new project to develop aircraft
that can ‘fully vanish within four hours of payload delivery or within
30 minutes of morning civil twilight (assuming a night drop), whichever
is earlier’
The
project is called Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable
Systems (Icarus), after the boy in the Greek myth whose feather and wax
wings melted when he flew too close to the sun.
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