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Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms (washingtonpost.com)

schwit1 writes: High over Alaska last summer, the Pentagon experimented with new, secret prototypes: Micro-drones that can be launched from the flare dispensers of moving F-16s and F/A-18 fighter jets. Canisters containing the tiny aircraft descended from the jets on parachutes before breaking open, allowing wings on each drone to swing out and catch the wind. Inch-wide propellers on the back provided propulsion as they found one another and created a swarm.

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  1. And the agency is called SCO by drew_kime · · Score: 4, Funny

    They must have figured the name SCO is available now.

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  2. they found one another by turkeydance · · Score: 2, Funny

    life finds a way

  3. Re: I routed for the Marines and the Colonel by HumanWiki · · Score: 3, Funny

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