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DARPA working on aircraft that will stay in the sky for five years

Posted in Tech/Sci News by Alex Sydell on March 4th, 2008

VultureThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will soon award a contract for development of an unmanned aircraft that is capable of staying in the air for up to five years at a time.

DARPA’s project, called Vulture, aims to create a craft that can fly uninterrupted over an area for extended periods of time while performing intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and communication missions. Read more »

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