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DARPA, Dynetics move Gremlins focus to aerial recovery

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Dynetics are shifting their focus in the Gremlins programme to aerial recovery of the X-61A demonstrator after completing the device’s first flight test in November 2019.

The X-61A demonstrator during a November 2019 flight test at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.A screenshot from a US Air Force video showing one of two ways DARPA plans to aerial recover the X-61A. The other way is via a similar hose-and-drogue device positioned off the right wing of the C-130.

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Dynetics are shifting their focus in th...

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