Pit stop to transport aircraft.Let's tremble after seeing the world's first drone aerial recovery video
Being able to do this means that the day when the drone fleet will be able to fly forever ...The aerial collection of the unmanned drone "X-61 Gremlin" succeeded in October, and the US Defense Research Planning Bureau (DARPA) published a video on YouTube.The specially specified lockhid transport machine C-130 was used for collection, and the location was Dagway Experiment Station (Utah).Last fall, nine times were annihilated, and all three drones were collected by parachute descent.This time, I lost one out of two, so it's finally a feat, but DARPA has been expecting as soon as possible, saying, "This will increase the sailing distance significantly."For the first time in 1935, the demonstration of the aerially refueled in the air, which provides fuel supply in the air, was held for the first time in 1935.Until then, the fighter was the sailing distance of "how far it could fly with fuel", but with the appearance of air refueling, it was possible to fly in the sky without being tied to the fuel capacity.If you join a fuel supply machine in the air, refueling is enough, so you don't have to look for a flat ground where you can land safely, and you can do more in long -chicks and aim for further attack targets.Speaking of aerial refueling, the SR-71 Blackbird of the Lockheed in the Cold War era is a completely air refueling reconnaissance aircraft.While resting the wings on the runway, it shrinks and the oil shrinks out, but when it jumps into the sky, and exceeds the speed of sound, it expands with heat and the gasket finally closes.No matter how much air refueling is possible, manned aircraft cannot fly forever.Both humans and aircraft need maintenance.Repair is also after landing.The goal of the Gremlin Development Program is to do something with the drone of the unmanned aircraft system (UNMANNED AIRCERAFT SYSTEMS).Large aircraft, such as cargo aircraft, approach the dangerous zone with a large aircraft, then fly UAS from the air, recover the air after the mission is completed, maintain and repair at the base or airport, and to sort out within 24 hours.The plan is to prepare.It is exactly the embodiment of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (reduced and reused)", and this is a form that showed its feasibility.If the aerial recovery is successful and improved, the aircraft carrier's empty debut is unlikely to be a story.In addition, the style that emits a drone from a drone is commonly called "Matryoshka of Death", and on both sides of the United States and China, it also attracts hot gazes.
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