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June 3, 2020

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Swarm drones could become the U.S. Army's new weapons of mass destruction

Could swarm drones become the U.S. Army‘s new weapons of mass destruction? According to The National Interest, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working with the drone industry to develop ‘distributed, secure and trusted-computing for heterogeneous swarms of autonomous vehicles’, better known as drones.

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World’s first reconnaissance drone, the Radioplane RP-71 Falconer from Northrop

By Haye Kesteloo

In Drone History, US Army

May 29, 2020

3 Min read

World's first reconnaissance drone, the Radioplane RP-71 Falconer from Northrop

Back in the thirties, Radioplane developed a number of model airplanes that were radio-controlled and served as aerial targets for antiaircraft gunnery training by the U.S. Army Air Corps, writes Peter Suciu. Later on, they would form the basis for the first reconnaissance drones.

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